Word: teller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memory and his shrewd cleverness. It was easy for him to recall the slightest detail of even distant events, and he had a plan for everything." In spite of his careful creed of moderation, Ben was "cheerful and fond of good living, a hearty drinker and a good story teller." Also, though Author Faÿ does not labor the point, Ben had little saintliness in his blood: in 1785 he had a great-grandson, the illegitimate son of the illegitimate son of his illegitimate son. Author Faÿ, ironic but appreciative, thus describes the meeting of Franklin and Voltaire: when...
...Airways. Inc., subsidiary of the powerful and influential Aviation Corp. He was on the second flight of rescue to an ice-beleaguered fur trading ship when he dropped from sight somewhere near Cape North, Siberia. He and Borland had food for a month. Last week that time elapsed. At Teller, Alaska, has been established a secondary base for the impatient rescuers...
...extend their searching range, the five planes of the Alaskan Airways assembled there, planned a fuel base half way between Teller and Cape North. Some idea of the hardships of Arctic cold and lack of adequate food may be had from the story of the McAlpine air party in search of copper marooned for nearly two months above the Arctic Circle and living chiefly on the charity of Eskimos (TIME...
...first won his reputation as a story teller with the novels, "The Beginning of Wisdom" and "Spanish Bayonet". His earliest poetic piece was "Five, Men and Pompey", written in 1915 just after he graduated from Yale. This was followed by "Heaven and Earth", which, with its predecessor, announced a vigorous new voice in American poetry...
...General Electric, American Telephone &Telegraph, United States Steel, constituted inflated currency when their securities stood at 403, 310 and 261 respectively. So long as the depositors did not begin to brood over this inflation, no harm was done. But so soon as the lines started forming at the paying teller's window, the Crash was inevitably swift...