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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about $300,000 all told. Whenever a Buck Jones picture goes out, it has an audience of 3,500,000 youngsters waiting for it- cinema's biggest fan club, the Buck Jones Rangers. They proudly wear badges, shrill the praises of Buck and his 25-year-old horse, Silver, from Maine to Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Rickett & Smith want to buy, below the world price of oil. And from this purchase the Mexican Government would get some of the quick cash it needs to keep going, make first compensation payments, and thus have a chance of getting the U. S. Treasury to resume the silver purchases from Mexico, canceled after the oil expropriation (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Today & Yesterday | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...faith by the smiling enthusiasm of their pastor, they heard him say: "God practically dropped this tent on us out of the sky. Isn't it wonderful? I never saw a tent that looked so pretty. . . . All my life I've taken communion out of little silver cups. But this Sunday we're going to have the great joy of taking it from paper cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In a Tent | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...hurdles are high and its winners are likely to be young singers of more than average ability. Last week Metropolitan General Manager Edward Johnson, having listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Auditions | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only in the presence of Mr. Spear. He wears it on his watch chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bells | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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