Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the banquet, Coach John Chase was presented with a silver bowl by the members of the squad...
Eight years ago, pink-faced, silver-haired Leo Crowley was called to Washington as a symbol of banking integrity, to restore public confidence in banking. A small town Wisconsin boy, a onetime grocery clerk, Mr. Crowley was eminent in Wisconsin church and business circles. Pope Pius XI decorated him with the Order of St. Gregory for his services. He was president of the Bank of Wisconsin, sponsored legislation to strengthen the State's banking system. Mr. Roosevelt made him chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...bikes produced last year were children's models, actually about three times as many adult bikes can be produced this year. They will weigh only 31 lb. (v. 57 lb. now), have no frills, must rely mainly on four metals: iron, unalloyed steel, silver, gold...
...sleeping under bridges in Switzerland; when Rachele Guidi shuddered as he spat at priests. A mockery of the man he might have been, Mussolini could well turn to reading the ancients. In the quiet of his study he might still forget the gnawing present in reading Virgil's silver lines...
Even before Pearl Harbor, glitter was fast vanishing from 10?-store counters as stocks of imitation pearls, rhinestones and cut glass, imported mainly from Czecho-Slovakia, ran low. Today the only practicable metal the $50,000,000 costume jewelry industry can get is costly sterling silver. Even sterling is in danger: it contains 7.5% copper...