Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner Egypt left London Dock for Bombay with 38 passengers, a crew of 290 and five tons of gold, 45 tons of silver in her hold, valued at over $5,000,000. The next evening, as she was passing the Island of Ushant off Finistere in a fog as thick as last week's, she was rammed amidships by the French cargo steamer Seine, went down in half an hour. Many have been the attempts to find, salvage her. The most important until last week was that of a Swedish Captain Hedbach...
...father was an ardent National Guardsman and at one time among the four or five crack rifle shots in the entire country. When I was a child the house was filled with gold and silver medals as tokens of this prowess. And I, his son, am a fanatical pacifist and have never so much as fired a gun in my life...
...Departments promoted all retired World War officers to the ranks they held in Wartime, as authorized by Congress last June. Accordingly Maj. Generals Tasker Howard Bliss, 76 (Chief of Staff, Sept. 22-Dec. 31. 1917), and Peyton Conway March, 65 (who succeeded Bliss), are entitled to wear the four silver stars of a full general whenever (rarely) they have occasion to appear in uniform. Notable among those permitted by the new law to wear the one broad and three narrow sleeve-stripes of the full admiral are: Henry Thomas Mayo, 73, 1916-19 Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet...
Pictures produced with ordinary silver emulsion film cannot be too small or too large without suffering distortion. The images recorded on light-sensitive film when the camera's shutter is snapped are formed by small deposits of metallic silver grains. For photographs taken through the microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes...
...darkened room at the University of Jena, Germany, Professor Hans Berger felt the forehead of his assistant carefully. Finding a proper spot, he punctured the skin, shoved a small silver needle through the interstices of the skull until the tip rested against the outer covering of the cerebral cortex. In the back of the head, he inserted a similar needle, attached a galvanometer to both. Then he stroked the assistant's arm with a glass rod, gave him arithmetic problems to solve...