Word: gar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among famed amphibian owners were : Lord Beaverbrook, who had two ; the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick, who brought his plane in for repair, smashed it so badly on landing he had to buy a new one; Motorboat Racer Gar Wood...
...Beauty there was on all sides. Daisies and cornflowers and poppies were growing wild in the green rolling fields. ... As we rode through the villages, friendly housewives and their daughters threw bunches of long-stemmed gardenias at us-gar-denias that would have cost $5 to $10 at a Madison Avenue florist back home...
...violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $170 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, was won by F. Gar- ner Ranney '42, of London, England, for his elegy "Nisi Dominus, Frustra...
...years ago, grinning Gordon Gar land celebrated his election as Speaker of the House by tearing out the telephone by which his predecessor had kept in touch with the Governor. Mr. Olson and the Legislators have been out of touch ever since, except when they wrangle...