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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely someone on the staff has heard the tiny silver bird in the sculpture group mark the hour by its song. Perhaps you object to being given the bird every hour on the hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S." [TIME, July 12]. What experts? And why better than the Beaverkill or Willowemoc in the Catskills; the West Branch Ausable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Adirondacks; the West Branch Penobscot in Maine; Frying Pan Creek, out of Aspen, in Colorado; or the Gunnison, in southern Colorado ? Sun Valley has a trick of producing an expansive spirit in writers, as I know. But is Silver Creek really that good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

When it came to the platform, the Communists moved brusquely and openly. The nominal chairman of the platform committee was silver-haired Rexford Tugwell, onetime Roosevelt brain-truster, who in his earnest innocence thought the convention should go on record in favor of a European recovery plan. But Lawyer Lee Pressman, who was fired from the C.I.O. because of his leftist views, quickly took charge, assisted by the West Coast longshoremen's Harry Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: The Pink Pomade | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...Secret Service boys" pried into the presidential steaks and fillets; members of the Fine Arts Commission studied the least new drape with a beady eye; maintenance officers checked the smallest bill. Breakfast began at 6 a.m., ended at noon, when lunch began. It was hard to tell how much silver there was, because visitors not only pocketed the monogrammed spoons and forks but even managed to get away with large trays and colonial bowls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secretary of the Interior | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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