Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support. He bought Universal Controls at 18, sold it at 83 on the way down after it had hit 102. "I never bought a stock at the low or sold one at the high in my life," says Darvas. "I am satisfied to be along for most of the ride...
...necessary in every well-maided novel, there is a fierce, unfazed and unfaded old matriarch brimming with hard-won wisdom, and a willowy, willful girl sorely in need of it. The matriarch, in this case, has broken her hip and may never ride to the hounds again, so she has plenty of time to look back at her own willowy and willful stage. Should she have deserted her husband to run off with worthless Gerald? Should she have abandoned her illegitimate daughter to be brought up by a Belgian family? No, evidently, to the second question; the girl grew...
Died. William Ford, 87, younger brother of the original Henry; of a heart attack; in Detroit. William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...
...Crimson has not faced any Toronto team in recent years so it is hard to judge the exact strength of tomorrow's opposition. Whatever its intrinsic power, the team's effectiveness will be diminished by a twelve-hour bus ride...
Riddle of Cruelty. If war was agony to Gray, it was often a lark to Army Historian Love. War Is a Private Affair would make light reading for a bus ride to an induction center. Yet Love, like Gray, has a serious theory about men at war: "A man may deliver his body to the authorities, but he still maintains a will and a life of his own. In most cases he fits his private interest into the world in which he finds himself, but he does not give it up." To prove his point, Love tells ten stories...