Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time to listen to an old friend. Blowing into town from Salida, Colo., bearded 82-year-old Prospector Frank E. Gimlett-who regularly turns up before Congress-clumped up to the Hill to tell Congress what was wrong with the country. His judgment this year: too few gold and silver coins; too many labor unions...
...little man's name was Magee-"Doctor" Robert Magee. He said he had a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He showed O'Connor some samples of aluminum he had treated with his mysterious liquid. O'Connor's eyes bugged. The samples gleamed like silver. O'Connor's business had fallen off after V-J day. But if he could produce a gleaming surface without the expense of buffing and polishing, he could get more orders than he had handled during the war. He hired Magee, enlisted a patent attorney, and prepared...
Even strangers to the field, watching to affable, silver-haired historian establish connections between the cold facts of time past and the alive, present-day ideas that spring from them, feel that here is a born historian. Actually, Professor Brinton came to Harvard in 1915 from his home in Connecticut(where he was born in 1808), wavering between English and History. "But English A decided that question-it scared me off," he says, a touch ruefully...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, where the temperature was 26° below zero, ladies of easy virtue ceased to advertise their charms by rapping on sporting house windows with a silver dollar. The more functional substitute: a safety razor blade. When scraped across a window pane it produced a sound approximating the love call of a snipe. More important, it scraped the ice off the glass, enabled passing gents to peer...
...crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...