Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gentleman, a well-known Collector," the Hearst hoard weighed 31,000 ounces or almost precisely one ton. Some of the pieces had been acquired as recently as six months ago. Most of them had been bought by high-bidding Hearst agents, once known as the most prominent silver buyers in London. Over a green baize table in Sotheby's quiet Bond Street rooms last week, red-faced Auctioneer Major Felix Walter Warre sold all 86 items to nodding, winking bidders...
Since Collector Hearst had paid about $125,000 for 32 of his Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian silver pieces included in this sale, his loss on the whole transaction was estimated to be at least 50%. Nobody knew what the chances were that Mr. Hearst might soon part with his armor, of which his collection is supposedly one of the best in the world...
termites bats, roaches, moths, silver...
Lapping the silver strand beneath our feet...
Last week Dr. Jean Broadhurst, 64, tall, stately, silver-haired professor of bacteriology at Columbia University, announced in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that by-products of the measles virus, known as inclusion bodies, can be brought to sight by a blue-black stain called nigrosin which pathologists use to color and distinguish certain cells of the central nervous system from all other cells. No bacteriologist before Miss Broadhurst, who began her long career by teaching biology at New Jersey State Normal School, seems to have used nigrosin to stain, and therefore to see, these measles inclusion bodies...