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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, Littauer will follow his speech with action, laying the cornerstone with a silver trowel specially inscribed for the occasion. Very little exertion will be required of the donor of the new Littauer Center, however, for a winch and a small derrick will swing the stone into place for the formality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer To Lay Cornerstone For Graduate School | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

...Rightist Navy took an important role assailing Leftist land positions, bombarded 25 miles of coastline, including strategic Castellon de la Plana, while Valencia was bombed from the air. Rightist warships seized a fleeing coast guard vessel aboard which were found eleven minor Leftist leaders, quantities of gold, silver and art objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Something New . . . Different | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...spat with his bride of less than a year, told her he was "going to disappear." After spending the night in Long Island hotel, where employes reported he had arrived in a boisterous state, moody Andrew Whitfield drove to Roosevelt Field, climbed into the cockpit of his small, silver Taylor-Cub monoplane, told attendants he was off to Brentwood, 20-odd miles away. Flyer Whitfield then nosed his plane into a mild easterly wind, disappeared from sight. Next afternoon an eight-State search by plane, police and boat got under way. Most plausible of a welter of rumors-including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Helen Wills Moody published her autobiography (Fifteen-Thirty) last autumn, it was generally agreed that she had written finis to a distinguished tennis career. Seven-time U. S. Singles champion, seven-time All-England Singles champion, four-time French Singles champion, Helen Wills Moody had her share of big silver cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moody Maneuvers | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Lewin Barringer is considered in soaring circles one of the most careful gliders. Before a flight he pores over charts, plans alternate routes, prepares for every contingency of weather. One of ten in the U. S. to hold a Silver C License (international gliding license), he is also licensed to fly transport planes. The most ardent sailing enthusiasts, sea and sky, take to motor ships when they want to get somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sails in the Sky | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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