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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patriarch mounted the rostrum in the middle of the nave. Acolytes ceremonially stripped him of his outer robes and crown. Then over the Patriarch's shoulders they draped three layers of bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pashka | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

After office hours, he took home a silver porringer sent by the President of the U.S., was told by amused nurses that the porringer was very nice, but week-old son Jorge Francisco was for the time being on a liquid diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Aleman's Week | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Peiping threw a farewell party. Their guest of honor had made their lives miserable with his peculiar scoops. The peculiarity of his scoops lay in the fact that so many of them were phony. His imminent departure made him very popular. At the party, he was presented with a silver flask filled with his favorite fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Incident | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Dunster--p., Ames; c., Smart; 1b., Flynn; 2b., Aldrich; s.s., Steven; 3b., Torrey; r.f., Lewis; c.f., Murphy; l.f., Morgan; s.s., Rich. Lowell--p., Brown; c., Bowditch; 1b., Broad; 2b., Silver; s.s., Gardner; 3b., Guild; l.f., Spear; c.f., Richardson; c.f., Lane; r.f., Wales, Heinrichs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters and Dudley Grasp Intra Openers | 4/15/1947 | See Source »

Resembling an oversize Foxy Grandpa, Griffis lives in an oversize, 14-room apartment on Manhattan's elegant Sutton Place. Five bathrooms are done in various pastels-one in baby blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Gullivers | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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