Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central of Georgia Railroad: "In 1958 we paid firemen on freight and switch engines $1,005,000. Considering the fact that we could get along without most of them, that's a good bit of money. It's 50% of the net earned last year." The Great Northern Railroad reports that it paid $21 million for time not worked...
...made good conversation and bad grades. He wandered to New York, wrote verse, painted, and sent passionate letters of contrition when his hard-pressed parents suggested that he get a job. In 1906, full of guilt and despair, the 26-year-old drifter began the first of his great walking trips...
...Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. An account of a great city's past calamities and surviving glories, written in some of the year's most readable prose...
...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and twelve-year-old Patty Duke bring such intensity and skill to Child Helen Keller's terrifying but triumphant fight for light that the show, despite its faults, is frequently great theater...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A clear and perceptive account of Spain's great naval campaign against Elizabeth's England, and of the stormy political and religious climate in which it was fought...