Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next slide shows an electric possibility. This is one we made in this instance in a Corvair and we made it into an electro-vair by putting in a bunch of silver zinc batteries. The engineering requirements was that it be able to operate in terms of performance as well as the gasoline powered...
...train ride to Suffolk Downs Race Track isn't much. You take the blue line out from Government Center and roll past the sleek silver cylinders nosing down at the Airport, the junk-covered beaches of Wood Island, and the abandoned playgrounds of Orient Heights...
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this realm, this England, is nothing more than a floating casino...
Ernst Strohbach turned to the state for money in 1959. With Communist capital (47%), he built a diversified firm in the ruins of Dresden. His 135 workers turn out just over $1,000,000 worth of jewelry, electroplated metals, and baroque Hofmuster silver each year. Strohbach could have gone with a giant state firm, which would have guaranteed him the security that he insists is "very important." But he remained semiprivate because, he says, rubbing his thumb and first two fingers together: "I can make so much more...
...diving prize-the William J. Brooks Award-was presented to sophomore Dave Silver, the best of the Crimson's three nearly equal divers...Bill Murphy won it each of the last three years...