Word: considerably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Trustee. A second choice but a first-rate man, Gordon Gray is an heir to part of the ripe, golden R. J. Reynolds tobacco (Camels) fortune. His father put young Gordon to work in the leaf houses and at the cigarette machines, but Gordon didn't like the...
Don't Crowd Romance. Last week in San Francisco, the Northerners voted to consider the question of changing the denomination's name to the less regional-sounding "American Baptist Convention." To counter any Southern suspicion that this was a new act of aggression, the Northerners also voted to...
Bing had been met that March night by Manager Johnson and a little knot of gracious but sharp-eyed Met directors. They apparently liked what they saw: a tall, fastidious man of 47, with charm and a manner of quick, cool decision. At lunch next day, they raised a question...
It was more of a surprise to Manhattan critics. Since Canadian-born Edward Johnson announced his retirement in 1950, they had been murmuring such names as Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior, even Billy Rose as his successor. The New York Times's highbrow Olin Downes suggested that some people would...
As Connecticut finishes patching up its highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire...