Word: silver
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...fields. Most notable Bolivian gain, however, is a gateway to the sea through the Paraguay River. Ever since the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), in which Chile defeated the combined Peruvian-Bolivian armies, Bolivia has sat in her Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Peru and Chile, in which Bolivia had hoped for a corridor, gave Bolivia nothing...
Twenty-five years ago the National Safety Council was one man with a stenographer, $1,400 and a motto, "Safety First." Last week, convening in Chicago for its Silver Jubilee convention, it was an organization with 5,000 members, an annual budget of $750,000, and importance enough to attract: 10,000 safety specialists from all corners...
...Sisters (Warner Bros.) substitutes for Dreiserian strength, tenacity and patience;-chief merits of the Myron Brinig novel from which it was adapted-the cinematically more essential merits of pace, tidiness and scenic value. Opening at an election-night ball in the mining town of Silver Bow, Mont, in the year 1904, the picture traces the lives of half-a-dozen of the guests, ending, for no particular reason, when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage...
Since the sun is a variable star, it is important that solar astrophysicists know how much the sun's energy radiation varies from day to day. The daily radiation output is usually measured with instruments called silver-disk pyrheliometers in which the sun's radiation is transformed into heat measurable in calories. A solar recording station should be high, dry, nearly dustless, nearly hazeless. The Smithsonian Institution has two solar outposts at Table Mountain in California and Mt. Montezuma in Chile. Last week the Smithsonian announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain...
...order for 18 of Brother Charles's picture frames enabled the Prendergast brothers to move to a studio on Manhattan's Washington Square. Charles gradually became known for decorative panels inlaid with silver and gold leaf, of which last week the Addison Gallery showed 19. Maurice, upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke...