Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Endlessly, actors as well as actresses paraded in satins, velvets, delicate lace, period gold & silver brocades. In one scene Actress Roy used 60 yards of diaphanous veils to conceal none of her charms. For three years the Folies bought, rescued, hoarded every scrap of material, fur, feathers and jewelry it could lay its hands...
Gold basketballs were awarded to the seven members of the team who played against Yale, while Wyndol Gray and Saul Mariaschin received silver basketballs for having been named to the all-New England squad. Coach Floyd Stahl was presented with a pen-and-pencil set by the team, and Gray received a civilian shirt-and-tie outfit...
...last July, a line of heavily laden trucks moved through gutted Tokyo's waterfront area. A group of Jap officers barked orders to bewildered laborers, who unloaded the trucks, dumped heavy metal bars into the bay. One worker overheard the officers discussing a treasure in gold, silver and platinum worth 30,000,000,000 yen ($2,000,000,000) "for use in building up a greater Japan after things quiet down...
...bailed out of his P-47, smashed his left leg against the tail of the plane. He fell behind the Nazi lines, and the Germans, too busy retreating to tend to him, let his bad leg get worse. When U.S. Army doctors reached him, they screwed a three-inch silver plate in just above the knee, and patched him up so that he didn't limp. But when he got back to college last January, Ohio State's swimming coach Mike Peppe told him he would never dive the way he used to-taking off from the left...
...Merrill Silver Stocker...