Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $170 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, was won by F. Gar- ner Ranney '42, of London, England, for his elegy "Nisi Dominus, Frustra...
...news: that 433,000 Class 1-A draft registrants had flunked the Army's literacy test (TIME, June 8). Nodding gravely, Columbia University's Professor Emeritus William C. Bagley, editor of School and Society, pronounced the figures "deplorable and discouraging." But the New York Times's silver-lined Columnist Simeon Strunsky observed that it was not as bad as all that: the Army had simply stiffened the literacy test, on the theory that "what is good enough for peacetime intelligence is not good enough for the Army...
...Essayist E. B. White wrote in Harper's: "We are the tough old campaigners-a little puffy round the girth strap, faltering a little at the top step of the long stairway, subsisting on bicarbonate of soda and ephedrine sulphate, our pocketbooks lined with silver and our back teeth with gold, but ready to go forth again to distant peninsulas against old enemies...
Peacetime use of the hot-metal gun was to coat baby shoes with bronze or silver (for keepsakes). Some wartime uses...
...terrific demand for currency that U.S. banks recently shipped over $40,000,000 in U.S. money to Cuba, where it now giddily circulates on an even Stephen basis with Cuban pesos. To ease the cash shortage further, the Cuban Congress on April 30 approved a new $20,000,000 silver-certificate issue...