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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: $50,000,000 and 45 cents | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Millionaire Clifford Burke Harmon in a bamboo and piano-wire contraption in 1910. Pioneer Harmon has been the world's most air-minded amateur ever since. In 1925 he founded the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs, which he dreamed would become a sort of international flying police force called Silver Wings of Peace. Instead it has become merely a clearing house for records and a donor of awards. Last week, the Ligue, of which stalwart, 68-year-old Clifford Harmon is still kingpin, announced the latest winner of its most important prize-the Harmon National Trophy for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Harmon to Hughes | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...leads a meticulously rational life. Before taking up contract four years ago he made a close study of all the systems, decided that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered the pangs of the defeated. His forehead cupped with silver hair, tall, mild, bespectacled Mr. Hoxsey afforded Senator Wheeler a perfect contrast to Richard Whitney, who looks more like a rich broker than rich brokers usually look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hoxsey on Holding Companies | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

While such an outlay might be considered sufficient today, these famished Englishmen demanded something a little extra with each meal. Such things as white peacocks served with their feathers still remaining "to make them look alive" or rabbits adorned with corral beads upon their feet and silver bells hung from their necks were really considered "comme il faut" by the Emily Posts of that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16th Century Englishmen Like College Drunks Today ... Overindulged and Suffered for It Too | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

...Scholar belonging to the College shall wear any Gold or Silver Lace, cord, or edging upon their Hats, Jackets, or any other Parts of their Cloathing, nor any Gold or Silver Brocades in the College or Town of Cambridge. Whoever shall offend against this law shall be fined not exceeding twenty Shillings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Laws of 1769 Prohibit Charge Accounts For Liquor, Restrain "Yard Constables" Powers | 2/3/1937 | See Source »

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