Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filled the committee room at Lake Success: "In these tragic years, when the whole household of Israel became one great hostelry of pain, we could not have builded what we did build had we not preserved our unshakable trust in the victory of truth." Grey-maned Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was telling the 55 U.N. delegations what the Zionists regard as truth's victory: unlimited immigration of refugee Jews into Palestine, creation of a Zionist state when Jews outnumber the Arabs...
...modern bobby-soxers, her name means next to nothing. But it is sweetly nostalgic news to folks in their forties that a trim, silver-haired, fiftyish, blues singer next week begins a new radio show-her first in twelve years...
Finalists in the annual College Sculling Regatta will ruffle up the Charles this afternoon, as leaders in each of the six oars divisions race for the silver medals and Dorsey Memorial Cup waiting at the finish line. The four singles winners will enter a playoff tomorrow to decide the lop-ranking undergraduate sculler...
...final-meeting of his undergraduate students before the reading period, the class presented him a silver bowl inscribed: "To Dean Pound with great devotion and esteem from the members of his last class in Government 43 in Harvard College...
...stop. London's Daily Mail, which published a tongue-in-cheek account of a man's being hypnotized into a distaste for smoking, was swamped with letters from readers who wanted to be hypnotized too. Wrote an Evening Standard contributor: "Many have found that gargling with silver nitrate, swallowing bicarbonate, or well coating the palate with toffee or chewing gum are strong discouragements-to the extent that smoke can then be inhaled only at the risk of an explosion...