Word: paragonally
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...Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. (world's third largest producers of crude) last week went Paragon Refining Co., refiners and operators of more than 400 filling stations in Michigan and Ohio. In March Paragon announced that it had outlets in excess of production...
...Governor of Ohio. In 1876 they put him through the Republican Convention as a compromise candidate. His Administration did much to restore a feeling of nationality to the U. S.. "showed that the industrial North could give as honest and efficient government as the agricultural South." No paragon, Hayes was ''a plain, shrewd, capable, honest business man." Author Eckenrode believes Hayes was just what the country needed...
...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
...invidious asked why Mr. Eastman gave the clinic to Rome instead of to some U. S. city and pointed to Murry Guggenheim, copper tycoon, as a paragon. Mr. Guggenheim and his wife Leonie jointly gave $4,000,000 last summer to build free dental clinics in Manhattan (TIME, July 1). Last week Mr. & Mrs. Guggenheim purchased land for the Manhattan project...
...ugly Duchess, the Maultasch, grew old and more hideous and very tired of life. The wisdom and gentility that, had her face been presentable, would have made her a paragon, curdled in her mind to a meagre and ineffective savagery. First she hired many cooks. Then, finding no diversion in the products of their art, she signed away all the lands she had loved, forgot her income, relinquished her estates, retreated, sick and deserted, to sun her blistered skin in a squalid cottage on a fisherman's island...