Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...founder, president, general manager and mechanical genius of this 48-year-old system-leathery, quixotic, aging (65) William James Moore. By geography and heredity Phoneman Moore was addicted to telephones. He was born in Alexander Graham Bell's home town of Brantford, Ontario. His cousin was Elisha Gray, co-inventor of the telephone. Not long after leaving Oberlin College in 1892 he patented an improved telephone transmitter, set about manufacturing it, built telephone lines, organized his own system. Today it grosses some $5,000 a month...
Museum officials stated that although yellow topaz is most popular for gems, actually other colors are more common. The mineral is found in white, gray, green, blue, and red, as well as straw-yellow and wine-yellow...
Interviewed yesterday in Eliot House, where he stayed over the weekend after giving a Morris Gray lecture on Friday. Mr. Lewis would not expand on what he meant by the word "win." starting that his real knowledge was of art and literature, not statesmanship. But he did predict that a "reinvigorated democracy" would come out of the present turmoil...
...gray sign, nailed up. local headquarters huddled lines of people. hall cold and drafty the boy's cough, every night. stomach hurts huddled lines of sacks, shapeless, lumps. crawling, crawling in the queues. a desk, brass label...my baby...I'd like to be...about an allowance... asking asking asking...
Coach Mikkola's face was ruddier and happier than over under his customary gray slouch hat on the side-lines Saturday. Bill Neufeld was smiling too. The prospects even this early in the season are not half as gloomy as Mikkola forecast after Christmas...