Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert E. Bly '50 has been awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for 1949-50 for his poem "The Indian Trail," it was announced yesterday. He will receive $185 and a silver medal...
There has been much argument since then over the identity of the sunken ship, but around Tobermory it became accepted as fact that she was the 960-ton galleon Duque de Florencia, a ship laden with gold and silver plate and carrying the Armada paymaster's chest, a hoard of 30 million ducats in gold coin...
Since that time some 15 attempts have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...
...page piece on Oliver Goldsmith is the best portrait: in the brief space, one gets a full idea of the scholar with "ugly body and stumbling tongue," who "had only to write and he was among the angels, speaking with a silver tongue in a world where all is ordered, rational, and serene...
...Night. But the Desert Inn could afford momentary setbacks. Wilbur had invited 150 $10,000-men (citizens eligible to $10,000 in credit)-and most of them played until dawn, side by side with hordes of silver-dollar bettors. And that was not the end of the excitement. The hotel stayed jammed, the play kept on at a rising tempo night after night and at week's end rose spectacularly higher...