Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boiled a ground squirrel shot by Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...
...sleek silver and polished oak plaque now adorns the Alumni Bulletin offices, attesting to the "high level of editorial achievement" the magazine attained during the past year...
...engine parts (for high strength, lightness and heat resistance); marine hardware (resistance to salt water); industrial equipment where corrosion resistance is important. If titanium does catch on, there is plenty of it. There is more titanium on earth than all the lead, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, gold and silver put together...
Ireland's finest silver fir still stands (thanks to the fact that a contractor's saw was once too small to fit its girth)-in Parnell's old garden at Avondale at Wicklow. But in the rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech...
Since then, Al has dropped his drumsticks for a baton and seldom musses his neat double-breasted suits even when he gets into the act on songs like The Mortgage Man. Most of the time, he circulates around the green-walled, silver-pillared Blackhawk to make the customers feel at home. They seem...