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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty Freshmen billiard players are competing for a silver cup presented by the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billiard Competition | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...statue he would like to down, but it usually takes a war or a revolution to give license to such effective criticism. Last week German invaders in Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented to the city in 1931 by silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski. The critics left this sign on its site: "The American sculptor made the legs too short, the body too long and the head too large. Such an artistic eyesore cannot continue to stand in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Critics | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...when his family is home, home when they are out. Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...defending holder of the silver cup, is the favorite for the race with Brown and Princeton close behind. The race will be sailed on the Bruins' home course starting at 12:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINGHY SAILORS MEET SEVEN OTHER TEAMS IN RACE SUNDAY | 11/15/1939 | See Source »

Only bird sanctuary was a bird shop in the RCA Building's cellar. As he drove the silver rivet, Mr. Rockefeller beamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Monument | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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