Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think what to do with South China's comparatively well-trained 200,000 "regular" Chinese soldiers who will find time hanging heavy if they are not provided with some sort of activity. The entire South China rebellion, it appeared, was an affair not of lead bullets but of "silver bullets," the elegant Chinese euphemism for bribes too stupendous to be called "squeeze...
...Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal's escape to the U. S., put it in a book called Marshal Ney Before and After Execution. The historical detectives centre their hopes on finding a silver plate, a bullet-nicked ankle bone. Marshal Ney had a silver trepan in his skull, a bullet wound in his ankle...
...used his memorial windows to show eight scenes from the same Gospel. Decked in calm crimsons, blues and yellows, like their 13th Century counterparts, Mr. Saint's saints & sinners glowed from the glass with equal clarity. A cringing Peter denied his Lord. Judas fingered his 30 pieces of silver. Jesus announced to Thomas, "I am the Truth." Jews in the Temple treasury were told, "The truth shall make you free...
...long, so successfully has Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood raced his Miss America that many people think he has done nothing else since he was born in the landlocked town of Mapleton, Iowa, 55 years ago. Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last...
...soldiers' bonus was paid June 15 in (1 "printing press" money, 2 silver certificates, 3 Baby Bonds, 4 gold, 5 long term bonds...