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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurent is Prime Minister of one of the world's richest nations. Canada (pop. 13,000,000) leads the world in production of newsprint, nickel and asbestos; stands second in wheat exports, aluminum and zinc; third in copper, gold & silver mining. The hemisphere's richest uranium mine is in the Canadian North. The vast iron-ore deposits in Labrador and Quebec can replace the dwindling U.S. Mesabi range as the mainstay of U.S. steelmaking. New oilfields in Alberta are already compared to the fabulous wells of west Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pere de Famille | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Mendelssohns' silver wedding anniversary, and their 20-year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Fruit | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...week's end the threat of a bank run appeared to be ended, but Mexican bankers and politicos had not heard the last of smuggled silver. Congressmen were ready to take the matter up this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pieces of Silver | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Newly mined U.S silver does not enter the free market. The U.S. Mint buys it at a subsidy price of 90.5? an ounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pieces of Silver | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Blackfriars. He painted 36 known portraits of the king, 25 of Queen Henrietta Maria. The British nobility followed the king to Van Dyck's studio, and suiting his art to his sitters, he forsook the rich palette of his Italian period to paint them in proud, pale, silver-grey tones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: White-Haired Boy | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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