Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surprisingly, the watermen had little or nothing to say about the growing practice of sterilizing reservoirs and swimming pools with silver. That ions (atomic fragments) of silver, copper and some other metals in extremely minute traces have a powerful germicidal effect was discovered in 1893. Only a few millionths of a gram per litre of water will kill germs. The silver which dissolves from a plate simply immersed in the water is enough. Thus treated is the water supply of Heidelberg, and there are many other installations in Germany, England, Switzerland. Two years ago the swimming pool of the Congressional...
...Minuet in G, the imagination shown in her original pieces. Best was a Nigerian Dance which she wrote when a Nigerian friend sent her a mahogany elephant. Others were: Rolling Home on My Roller Skates, Pansy Bells, The Butterfly, The Wolf (inspired by Little Red Ridinghood&), Golden Fish in Silver Waters, the result of a visit to the Aquarium...
...from his coolers of silver drink wine...
...Pontiac, Mich., 24-year-old Jerold E. Oaks obtained a marriage license, paid for it with a silver dollar-first money he ever earned. Said he: "It was my pay for a day's work on a golf course when I was only ten. I prized it so much that I kept it until I could find the most that a dollar could...
...wood in her walls, panels, bas reliefs and sculptures. Among more than 50 kinds of wood, alert fanciers assisted by Cunard handbooks were soon spotting avoidire, petula, zebrano, bubinga, makore, tiger oak, patapsko, peroba, pomla, blackbean. Some of the wood had been sprayed with aluminum glaze and gleamed like silver. Definitely and handsomely the keynote of the Queen Mary's modernistic decoration is wood, wood, wood. Witty new Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses...