Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before Professor Haring rose to "thank the undergraduates and staff for their continued cooperation," House Committee Chairman William Gold '49 presented the retiring Master with a pair of silver candlesticks and requested "the Harvard parents of Dunster men" to sit for a portrait for the dining hall...
...Charles K. Kirby* of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine recently had an idea for making sure. He put Researcher Edward G. Thurston of Pennsylvania State College to work on a gadget. Result of their collaboration is a surgeon-alarm for gallstones: a tiny quartz crystal enclosed in silver at the end of a slender, hollow silver probe, and attached to an amplifier. The quartz acts like a phonograph pickup; when the probe touches a gallstone, it makes a ping or click-like the noise made when two small rocks are knocked together. The sound can be amplified enough...
Droning on steadily for seven days, Australia's ruddy, silver-haired Sir William Webb, the tribunal's chairman, read the verdict. One by one, the prisoners were called in for sentencing. For six others besides Tojo, it was death; for 16 more, life imprisonment...
...tons of rice hoarded outside the South Gate (apparently by an unnamed government agency). This cache was distributed to rice shops and a rationing system instituted. At the same time new currency regulations temporarily stabilized the plummeting gold yuan and provided for the issuance of gold and silver coins...
...starting Lowell lineup: le, Silver; lt, McCullough; lg, Marble; c, Mortimer; rg, Ripley; rt, Sweetser; re, Esch; qb, Korassik; lh, Donahoe; rh, Wales; fb, Woodruff...