Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Graves was prone to quote such back-pats from admirers as this one: "Silver has its Bryan, the League of Nations its Wilson, the sensible free speech has you. ... All hail to the champion of freedom." To which Columnist Graves generously responded, in print: "All hail to you, too, Mr. Purdy...
...gold was silver, never gilded...
...Meitner got a silver bowl; the others, engraved citations. Then nine of the eleven sat for a picture as notable for its variety of necklines as for its collection of female talent...
Like most good conductors, Leopold Stokowski has a temper. Once he held up a Montevideo concert for half an hour while ushers gathered up programs which said his real name was Stokes.* Once the silver-haired maestro walked out on the Mexico Symphony Orchestra after a fuss-&-feathers over an incomplete orchestration. Last week in Cuba, Stokie was in another skirmish with Latin Americans...
...fuse-which was a complete transmitter-receiver in the nose of a 5-inch shell. Part of the secret is the dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils can be printed: they are nothing but spirals...