Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernhardt, Modjeska, Booth, Salvini, Joseph Jefferson once declaimed and strutted before Central City's miners and bonanza kings. When General Grant came to town, a street was paved with $12,000 worth of silver bricks. Then the end of the mining rush left Central City nearly deserted. Its resurrection began when descendants of the original builder gave the Opera House to the University of Denver. The theater was refurbished, its hickory chairs restored, and the curtain went up on Lillian Gish in Camille, designed and directed by Robert Edmond Jones...
...first Russian week and 100 in the second, the Germans had not done much more than push the Russians behind their old borders. After two bitter weeks they had cleared only a little beyond the areas which they themselves had, since 1939, handed to Russia on a silver platter...
...that you are Naval officers as well as Naval aviators." To show that these are no idle words, the Navy spends the first six weeks of its precious training time schooling the novice cadets in its traditions, odd jargon and technical functions. Before a cadet can pin on the silver bar of a Second Classman - the happy sign that he is at last flying - he must bone up for many a long, hot and sleepy hour on the rudiments of engines, aerodynamics, aerology, gunnery, navigation, the dit-dit-dahs of radio code...
...whores who cruise out of Sackville Street in their hired silver foxes and their spindle heels; "business as usual...
...will work closely with each of the Commodity Sections. All three will get added work. Biggers will also head the Commodity Sections responsible for steel, aluminum, magnesium, paper, pulp and chemicals. Nelson will boss the sections where purchasing problems are most important, such as textiles, food, drugs and clothing. Silver-topped Ed Stettinius will also take on rubber, copper, zinc, similar materials, but will continue to exercise his statutory control over priority matters. All actions for priority, in whatever section they originate, must be approved...