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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast and desolate landscape. The convulsive and catastrophic shapes of the rocks will give a frozen notion of geological delirium. A silver spoon ten meters long will sprout directly from a rock of iron. Inside the spoon . . . two fried eggs . . . fire red. . . . Twilight shadow and the white of the eggs and the silver spoon will reflect the light of the sky . . . very precisely aquamarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Drop Everything, Drop Dado | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Then daughter Gloria, in Mexico with her silver-haired maestro (a man old enough to be her father), chose to suggest that her mother work for a living, and told the press what she was doing with her mother's former allowance of $21,000 a year. She was giving it to blind, homeless, needy children, "because I had an unhappy childhood." Cried Mrs. Vanderbilt: "Disgraceful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Print papers have a gelatinous silver emulsion on a tough paper base. In the Resisto papers the base is impregnated with an acetate which makes it practically waterproof. Developing, fixing and washing solutions are thus absorbed by the emulsion only. Using Resisto, photographers need take only two minutes for fixing, four minutes for washing, three minutes for drying their prints. The results, says Eastman, are durable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picture While You Wait | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Bridges to Tomorrow. Faced with such perplexities, the State Department stalled while seeking a new formula for hemispheric action. Its Good Neighbors sought just as feverishly for a way out of the U.S.-Argentine conflict, for un puente de plata-a bridge of silver-that might bind the Americas together and save their 56-year-old Pan American system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Mañana Policy? | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...iron Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find it. Subsequently it produced 25 million tons of copper, gold and silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Up from the Ashes | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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