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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Hambletonian at Goshen, N.Y., most famed trotting race of the year, is for three-year-old trotters only-and for only the best of them. Last week, for the silver anniversary of the race, two horses were outstanding in the 13-horse field. On the basis of his two-year-old championship record, E. J. Hayes's strapping brown colt, Lusty Song, had been made the winter book favorite. But at post time the crowd had taken a fancy to the Arden Homestead's Star's Pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Pleasant Companion | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Copacabana's handsome square, thousands of Bolivian Indians, the men in grinning masks, the women adorned with sparkling silver belts and jewelry, staged another uproarious carnival. At a border village, scores of Indians were staggering around the patio of a house where a wedding fiesta was in progress. In a room off the patio sat the bride and bridegroom, immobile, glassy-eyed, unable even to speak. "They are seasick," explained a guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Evil | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...gaudy, eight-page comic book relating the saga of 38-year-old Sid McMath. There was McMath the poor boy, born in a dogtrot cabin on an Arkansas farm; McMath the amateur boxer, and honor student at the state university; Major McMath the Marine Corps hero, with the Silver Star for bravery on Bougainville; McMath the racket-busting prosecutor who cleaned up gambling in Hot Springs; McMath the family loving governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hot Rock of Hot Springs | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...Silver Lining. In Bexhill, England, Mrs. Elsie Hayward opened a letter,' found her lost ration books-minus the tea and candy coupons-and a religious tract exhorting the reader to give thanks for daily blessings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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