Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this season, Sammond ignited a Lowell rally midway through the first period by setting up a first down on the Gold Coast 20-yard line. He then cut back through the right side of the Adams line, bounced off several tacklers, and zig-zagged into the end-zone. Dan Silver kicked the-extra point...
...times the size of Massachusetts. The tribe grew from 8,000 to 56,000 people. They had been encouraged to build a rude economy on sheep-raising; as the years passed, they accumulated flocks totaling over a million animals. There was mutton to eat and wool to weave, and silver jewelry for the wrists of their women...
...Christopher Lonsdale, now a ruddy, gruff and silver-haired 61, the theories of most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...
...SILVER KINGS (286 pp.)-Oscar Lewis -Knopf...
...small spring where the blue sand was thick. They sent a sample of crumbly stuff across the mountains to an assayer in Grass Valley, Calif. He tested it twice, to be sure. There was no doubt: the stuff that gold miners had cursed and kicked aside was rich in silver...