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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, in huge Usher Hall, which looks like a railway station, the first of 40 orchestral concerts burst into life under the talented baton of Eduard van Beinum (TIME, April 12). Next night Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra was led by France's silver-haired Charles Münch (Koussevitzky's heir in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Wee Drap o' Music | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Nizam prefers to receive rather than give. To his last birthday party he invited 1,156 Hyderabadis to dinner. Each one paid, according to the established custom, a door fee in gold and silver worth $50. The total take, $57,800, would pay his personal food bill for 395 years. Says his caterer, who was once maitre d'hotel at London's Grosvenor House: "The food he consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HYDERABAD: The Holdout | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Miracle." That night, under a starlit sky, the crowds shuffled nervously about the gate of Maria's house. She appeared to them on her balcony. She wanted to die, she said, in the presence of the faithful. Somewhat later, the tinkle of a little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: They Did Cast Lots | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Kuling, what he might do to save China from deepening disaster. Last week he flew back to sweltering Nanking with his answer-a program of fiscal reform to combat runaway inflation. China would have a new dollar, called the gold yuan, backed by $200 million worth of gold and silver and U.S. dollars. The fantastically depreciated old Chinese dollars must be traded in, at the rate of 12 million old for one new. The government pledged itself not to print more than 2 billion of the new yuans, and to back them up by a stern clean-up of speculators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: To Save the Hair & Skin | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...invited the heads of the diplomatic missions in Ottawa to come around for a drink. The idea: a gift to mark the retirement of U.S. Ambassador Ray Atherton (TIME, Aug. 23), dean of Ottawa's diplomatic corps. Ambassador Benavides had no trouble persuading 32 of his colleagues. A silver cigar box, they decided, would be just the thing, and it should be engraved with the signatures of the mission heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Goodbye, Now | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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