Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through its awards and medals, it taught farmers from Scotland to Wales about new plowing methods. It waged a campaign in favor of the scythe versus the sickle, awarded a silver medal to a nine-year-old artist prodigy named John Millais. By publicizing methods of preserving fish, it was largely responsible for establishing the British salted fish industry; by offering rewards for the invention of an effective chimney brush, it ended the necessity for chimney sweeps...
When production started near Silver City, N. Mex. (pop. 7,000), the townspeople rioted and warned the moviemakers to get out of town before they were shipped out "in black boxes" (TIME, March 16, 1953). Under police protection, Jarrico & Co. kept shooting until the leading lady, Mexican Actress Rosaura Revueltas, was deported as an illegal alien...
Arthur L. Finn: Union Committee; Dudley House Committee (1950-'51); Harvard University Band; Schneider's Silver Cornet Band; PBH Social Service Committee; Intramural Boxing, Baseball, Hockey...
...still under 10,000. But it has splendid white beaches, a sunny, breeze-cooled climate and enough bonefish, wahoo, tarpon, blue teal, ducks and wild pigs to win rave notices from rod-and-gun editors. Spending $2,000,000, Wenner-Gren built a luxurious Lighthouse Club (with appointments in silver) and a well-fitted yacht club. The resort opened last month...
...House of the Navahos. One day last week it was jampacked with impassive Indians-new-style Indians with white man's haircuts and business suits, old-style Indians, longhaired and loaded with jewelry to show their wealth. There were many medicine men among them, and they shifted their silver-studded medicine bags on their shoulders as they waited for Yazzie...