Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elaborately wrought, encrusted with 17th Century Portuguese ornamentation, it bears proudly the arms of the ten-year-old Portuguese Republic. Weight : 6 Ib. Mate rial: silver plate. Nature: inkstand...
...could not be altered by all the King's horses and all the King's men, may be directly attributable to a lurking fondness for the cups. The Children's Guardians of Verses may even go further. Under the scrutinizing eyes of these realists, Contrary Mary's garden of silver bells and cockle-shells will probably be exposed as an acreage devoted to the sowing of wild oats. Mother Goose, though she deserts her former cohorts, has at last made a distinctive contribution to the foibles of Americana...
...Walgreen & Co 38,686,746 33,120,920 4 +16.8 *McCrory Stores Corp 29,219,677 29,760,117 -1.8 National Bellas Hess 25,475.694 36,648,025 -30.4 *Daniel Reeves, Inc 25,330,665 24,672,126 4-2.6 F. & W. Grand Silver 25,168,902** 19,458,560 + 29.3 *Melville Shoe 21,097,025 18,621,253 + 13-3 Childs Co 19.939-873 20,861,030 -4.4 J. J. Newberry 19,369,828 17,487,496 + 10.7 Schulte-United...
...report urging a government-built dam in Boulder Canyon. Senator Hiram Johnson and Representative Phil Swing, co-authors of the Swing-Johnson Bill authorizing the construction of Boulder Dam, were the men who started and carried through the ten-year congressional fight which made possible Secretary Wilbur's Silver Spike ceremony. Your footnote saying Herbert Hoover got seven affected states "to sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam" is also incorrect. The treaty negotiated by Mr. Hoover, the Colorado River compact signed November, 1922, not 1921, contains no agreement whatever to build Boulder Dam or any other...
From England, France, Hawaii, the Philippines and many a U. S. waterway, little sailboats came by freight to Chesapeake Bay, were refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys...