Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the day." He would arise about 4 p. m. at his Cherokee Park home, go to town in the evening, to a branch of his National Bank. There he would sit at the desk of a vice president and, with barely the scratch of a pen, direct his myriad affairs political, financial, mercantile. And there he would issue occasional orders for his paper. There, at midnight or later, his business associates would have to go if they wanted to talk with him. After his banks failed it was observed that Publisher Brown went nearly every night to the Herald...
...hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river in South America as a 20-ft., boulder-strewn torrent, "fed by myriad brooks which emanate from the surrounding mountains...
Mourned President Hoover: "His happy character, his sterling honesty, his courage in public questions endeared him and held the respect not alone of his myriad of friends but of the country at large. His passing is a loss to the nation...
Recruits, Banker Wiggin, however, had no idea of meeting the ghost alone. Hardly had Halsey, Stuart & Co. withdrawn than President Clarke called upon Fox's shareholders to elect six new directors. At the head of the list was Banker Wiggin, director of a myriad of mighty companies, also of less prosperous ones such as American Woolen, Armour & Co., International Agricultural Corp. Proposed to stand beside him were General Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust...
Brother-in-law had foiled blackmailers. But at what cost. Reporter Thompson says he was told by Chief Travers: "Instead of ... an elaborate wedding with all the myriad, entrancing details that are so precious to every young girl in her dreams of the future, there had been a hurried, simple ceremony...