Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, silver-haired spinster boarded a plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
Married. Thomas J.Herbert, 53, round-faced, silver-haired governor of Ohio; and Mildred Helen Stevenson, 40, his doctor's secretary; each for the second time; in Indianapolis...
...Doctors of Divinity. They listened to learned lectures on everything from "Are Basic Needs Ultimate?"* to "What is a Virgula in Virgulate Cercariae?† When they went home to their various campuses and laboratories, they took with them, like the ships of Tarshish, a freight of sound scientific gold & silver - along with a few peacocks and apes...
...wooden coffin, the diggers say they found the mummified body of a young girl, almost perfectly preserved. She must have been the daughter, wife or favorite of a man of consequence; her clothes, still in good condition, were rich with fur and ornaments. She had a mirror of polished silver alloy and golden jeweled earrings. Close at hand were primitive musical instruments. (These and the girl's unusually long and slender fingers suggested to one of the romantic, but not very scientific, diggers that she may have been a musician...
...Nelson's day, Christie's pocketed 7½% of the purchase price, a standard fee recently upped to 10%. Christie's percentages on the sale of pictures, silver, jewelry, furniture, china have brought the house a prosperity equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross...