Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha (659 tons), Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert's three-masted schooner Atlantic (303 tons), stayed in the harbor below the bridge. Her Harvard-alumnus owner, wearing an old panama with a blue ribbon, bought 18 observation-car tickets for himself and guests, smiled when the conductor counted them twice. Scattered along the course were most of the boats that started two days later for the race to Bermuda. Governor Cross of Connecticut...
...charged with the health & happiness of some 2,000,000 souls, began to dicker with huge Electric Bond & Share, top-rung owner of Tennessee Public Service. T. V. A. wanted to buy certain properties of the private utility, then sell them on easy terms to Knoxville and neighboring communities...
...owner's wife and child; Ch'en's attempted murder; the crowded lines of wounded Communists lying in the station, waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years...
...name was for the cabin's owner. Jean Thomas, a small, sprightly blonde who was there dressed in a billowy Elizabethan costume. Mountaineers called her ''the traipsin' woman" because as a court reporter she followed the Law from one hilly settlement to another. Eventually her chief interest became folksongs and ballads, particularly those which could be traced back directly to the folk music...
...works on his cars, has not owned a pair of overalls in years. He amuses himself on his small ranch near Malibu Beach with a group of monkeys which he hopes will be the nucleus of a private zoo. The monkeys are named after famed auto-racers whom their owner thinks they resemble. Another Miller hobby is radio; he has a dozen sets. He has designed marine engines for Gar AYood, contemplated making an airplane motor until he lost interest in flying three years ago because he thought it was too dangerous. He never rides in his racing cars, owns...