Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member, E. Leo Slaggie, Jr., of Lowell House and Dayton, Ohio, received the Palfrey exhibition given annually to the most distinguished scholar in the Senior Class who also holds a stipendiary scholarship" in honor of John G. Palfrey, Class of 1815. Last year Slaggie was the winner of the Silver debating medal. He is active in the Band and the Mountaineering Club...
...last cliché died away, a sheepish realization dawned that about all the U.S. had witnessed was a demonstration of how tautly its racial nerves are stretched. There was, nonetheless, a silver lining: some of the Southern bus lines that prematurely took down their segregation signs found the new arrangement working so well that they decided to leave things that...
...Thailand every cloud, even one so dark as the ill-omened Year of the Goat, has a silver-and sometimes a gold-lining. Just as the astronomers had predicted, the Year of the Goat was bad. Day after day it plunged Thailand into gloom with the revelation of one misfortune after another: two solar eclipses in one year, a holiday bus crash in which 22 people died, the deaths of a number of prominent Thais. Only last week, on the very eve of the goat's departure, a live bomb accidentally fell from an air force plane and killed...
...silver cloud had a grey lining, however, as Harvard must find a new scrum-half to replace South African surgeon Charles Levin, whose dislocated cartilege will keep him out for the rest of the season...
...pleased at being allowed to hold this year's championship, that the government issued a special ten-yen (3?) stamp. When the Swaythling Cup winners were awarded their prize, Captain Ichiro Ogimura took a small snapshot from his pocket and held it in front of the silver trophy. It was a picture of Kichiji Tamasu, 21-year-old team star, who died of a heart attack last January. Said Ogimura with due solemnity: "I thought he should know...