Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1946, when the pressure of big-time golf began to keep Byron Nelson from sleeping nights, he quit the tournament circuit. Nelson worked on his 730-acre Texas ranch, drove a tractor, played a little exhibition golf during the summer. But he came out each year for the Masters...
In Cairo, at a 200-acre fair displaying Egypt's latest advances in science, technology and social welfare, the recently divorced and remarried Princess Fawzia and her sister, Faiza, turned up as unscheduled exhibits of the very best in Egyptian pulchritude (see cut).
Last week some of the 225 delegates went out to the San Joaquin Valley, the heart of California's cotton country, to see how the agricultural miracle had been wrought. In what had once been a sandy wasteland, they saw miles of irrigated cotton land. They winced at the...
With all his business responsibilities, harddriving, hard-drinking egoist Glenn McCarthy (he keeps a full-length color photograph of himself in his office) is still as truculent as he was in his days as an oilfield roughneck. The tales of his business deals are almost matched by the stories of...
I admit to the accusation of strikebreaker, said the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, Francis J. Spellman, "and I am proud of it. If stopping a strike like this isn't a thing of honor, then I don't know what honor is." For three days last week...