Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent Sunday, he drove from Hyannisport to Natick to deliver a breakfast speech at a men's group at Temple Israel. After 11:30 Mass, he hurried to a Framingham neighborhood coffee meeting, followed it up with a luncheon speech in Framingham, an appearance at a "silver get-acquainted tea" given by Medford St. James Church Women's Guild, a talk to a parents' group at the Wrenthem State School for retarded children. That night he attended the General Casimir Pulaski Skyway Committee banquet, held in Dorchester, quoted part of Poland's national anthem in Polish...
Beneath the silver dome of the Illinois statehouse at Springfield there were cartographers enough for Rand McNally. Republican mapmakers and Democratic mapmakers, pressure-group mapmakers and reform-minded mapmakers, all were busily plotting their own charts for redistricting Illinois-and the outcome of their efforts may have a lot to do with who controls the U.S. House of Representatives after next year's elections...
...tomb of a Lydian lady had been illicitly opened during the winter; the archaeologists completed the excavation by sifting every bit of earth. Out of the dirt came a half-inch gold bead, delicately adorned with tiny gold globules, an agate pendant on gold wire, and a tiny silver figurine of a hawk, From broken pottery in the grave, the archaeologists dated the burial to the time of Croesus' father, about...
...archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small currency and thus of importance in finding out how the Lydians happened to invent money...
...surprise dinner, Acting President Charles A. Coolidge '17 presented Aiken with a silver model of Mark I, the world's first such computer, which Aiken helped to design. The model accurately represents the mammoth Mark I--down to tiny flashing panel lights and thumbnail-sized electric typewriter with keys and silver ribbons...