Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students trying to survive the mad, forced gaiety of examination period, the silver screen is currently offering several morsels well worth the seeing. Locally, Shirley, Temple turns in a creditable performance which should boost her stock in undergraduate eyes. Although this department can see no relevance whatever in the title, "Just Around the Corner" gives audiences at the University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson...
...square, M. Daladier caught the frenzy of the crowd, stepped out of the official procession and went through the square shaking hands with men, patting the heads of children. At Sfax the Caid (Mayor), whose grandfather fought against the invading French 57 years ago, presented M. Daladier with a silver olive branch symbolic of "union and peace," declared: "We have come to know how great has been the . . . good to us of French protection and administration...
...hour week, general working conditions and other basic phases of the present agreement remained unchanged. The wage of pantry men, helpers and glass and silver women was also set at $18, making this the minimum wage for kitchen and Dining Hall workers. The contract called for a $3 raise for bus boys, giving them $30 a week. Other increase asked were in rough proportion to this...
Mitsui mines were yielding gold, silver, zinc and coal; Mitsui factories were making silks and steel; Mitsui ships were carrying farm, mine and factory products to all parts of the world. Mitsui money helped the Japanese to victory in the wars with China (1894-95) and Russia (1904-05). The House of Mitsui became in fact the most potent Japanese commercial enterprise, and to Takashi Masuda, managing director of the "partnership company" that held the empire together, went much of the credit...
...Wells College, where she studied under Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University of Michigan...