Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competitor. In Buffalo, N.Y., William G. Zeron was sentenced for counterfeiting, although his half-dollars had more silver in them than the Government...
First step is to stop the spurting blood, by tourniquet or by a surgical clamp applied directly to the bleeding vessel. Next, remove blood clots (which form in about 50% of the cases) with forceps or a corkscrew of silver wire. Then, if no more than two inches of artery have been lost, the torn arterial ends can be stitched together with a hairlike needle and fine silk. The needle must not enter the tender inner lining of the artery, but only its tough coat. After the artery is joined, a strip of nearby muscle can be wrapped around...
Occasionally a lion roared; silver-haired Tenor Giovanni Martinelli roared louder. The summer opera season in Cincinnati's Zoo (with Ponchielli's 66-year-old La Gioconda) was on. Except for four operatic finds, it was much like other seasons. The four finds (chosen from 3,000 operatic aspirants recruited through nationwide radio auditions): Nan Merriman, a dimpled, 22-year-old brunette from California, who made her debut disguised in the stage wrinkles of old La Cieca in La Gioconda; Dorothy Ann Short, a 19-year-old University of Washington coed; Max Condon, a six-foot-two tenor...
Bill Hard's thesis was an old one: that one cigaret was much like another, that the magic of any one brand for its smokers was a creation of silver-penned advertising wizards who should be put in their places. To prove it, Reader's Digest hunted up a laboratory with a cigaret-puffing robot, put it to work dragging on 24 specimens of each of seven brands...
Quick were Old Gold's silver penmen to start the backfire. Reader's Digest's July issue was still on top of the rack in the bathrooms of American homes when Old Gold hit the newspapers with full-page advertisements...