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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Silver, bills, and checks totalling $6,000 crossed the palms of Student Government Association tellers during Radcliffe's Pay Days last week, Joan Braverman '50, treasurer of the Association, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dues Paid in At 'Cliffe Top $6,000 Figure | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Every dorm, off-campus house and commuter group may submit either words to an old tune or an entirely original composition. The winning song will appear in the Radcliffe Red Book as an official college melody, and the group presenting it will win the Song Contest Silver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

...cried his father in transports, 'run to my arms. Glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is worth more than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...wrote Billie, "destined to be jealous of the entire Follies chorus and star list for the rest of my married life. Once when Flo came in at 5 a.m., after seeing Olive Thomas I suppose, I crept downstairs to find him raiding the icebox. Nearby was an enormous silver soup tureen and ladle. I seized the ladle and belabored him about the head and shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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