Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver Stadium...
...paragraphs: " 'Well, well, well,' George Gipp must be saying just about now, 'Look who's here. Welcome home. Rock." "And there in that happy land, beyond the black, where the stadium is of silver, the goal posts of gold and all games are won, those two whose friendship and affection became one of football's finest sagas must be clasping hands in joyous grip again...
...vault of the Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, lies a silver cup of great antiquity. It is believed by many to be the Holy Grail which according to legend vanished mysteriously after Sir Galahad took it to the city of Sarras in the East. The cup is known as the Great Chalice of Antioch, where it was discovered in 1910 by some excavating Arabs. It has been since 1914 the property of Fahim Joseph Kouchakji. a Syrian Catholic born in Aleppo who became a U. S. citizen last week. Art Collector Kouchakji was planning last...
...actual, original cup is a common silver vessel of poor and crude workmanship. The rim is broken in places, as if fragments had been removed as keepsakes. It is contained in an outer shell, whose workmanship establishes the antiquity of the Chalice and is the basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile...
...slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under 1,000 lb. Anything but racy, it looks and is a winged bus. The venturi tube (which catches the wind for the speed indicator) attached to the nose outside, even suggests an oldtime Ford crank. But it is the cabin interior that Designer Stout has ingeniously arranged to make the automobile driver...