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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dress suits, 30 dresses, two morning coats, a dinner jacket, three business suits (blue and dark grey) and some of those fiendish French shirts that button up the back. Although both of the Auriols are homebodies, they like elegance at official dinners. Three weeks ago crates of choice wine, silver and Sevres china were shipped off to the French embassy in Washington for the dinners which the Auriols will give there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Preparations for a Journey | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...Silver Spoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wanna Know All About Annex? This Is From Horse's Mouth | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

Each class gives a set of Radcliffe china to its first member to be married following graduation, and the first girl born to a member of each class gets a silver spoon and becomes the class mascot. Increasingly in recent months, the girls are marrying before they graduate, probably because of the threat of war. Usually they marry during the Christmas holidays and return to college. After graduation, about 40 per cent get jobs, 29 per cent do graduate work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wanna Know All About Annex? This Is From Horse's Mouth | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

William Vittoni and Joseph Vowels were working for North American Weather Consultants of Pasadena, Calif. Their business was making rain or snow by seeding susceptible clouds with silver iodide particles. Last week they took their apparatus by auto and trailer close to the summit of a 3,700-ft. mountain near Santa Barbara, and started grinding out silver iodide to fulfill a contract with the city. "Each time we turned on the machine," said Vittoni, "we found ourselves in the center of a miniature snowstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Much Magic | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...should he do? Moreover, what should he do about Nurse Vaughan? Nothing works out right for Dr. Varga. He loses both the girl and the patient, and his own brief career in Port Aarif comes to an abrupt end when the governor's bodyguards take after him with silver daggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dilemma in the Heat | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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