Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like any returning traveler, Franklin Roosevelt found the mailbox jammed, a desk littered with unanswered memos, a row of soured milk bottles on his doorstep. In his three-week absence from the White House the work had piled up-and oversights had taken their toll. To catch up he would now have to work overtime...
...Harvard as if it was his own back yard, leaping into sewer ditches to discover fragments of antique Harvard chinaware, laying out new Yard walks with a bundle of stakes and twine. He inherited a large fortune and fattened it judiciously (except when he lost $194,412 in Kreuger & Toll). He endowed (with some $1,000,000) the Harvard Society of Fellows-a group of 24 brilliant young men who are lodged in the "Houses" and paid $1,250 to $1,500 annually for three years so that they can pursue graduate studies unencumbered by formal Ph.D. requirements...
Despite the U.S. heavy bombers' heavy toll, the Jap dipped next day into his deep reservoir of shipping and brought out four transports, determinedly convoyed by two cruisers and four destroyers. The destination: Lae (rhymes with gay) 150 miles up the New Guinea coast from Buna, where the Jap has his nearest foothold...
Skillful flyers were being developed over Burma. As in the Solomons and at sea, they were exacting a far heavier toll from the Japanese than the Japs from them...
...visitors made a short-lived comeback in the second half, sparked by peppery Joe Bornstein and Freshman Phil Dundas, but once Burditt's fouldrawing antics began to take their toll, and three Wesleyan cagers were ousted via the personal foul route, it was no contest. The departing Feslermen, Littell, Bur Mann, and "Moose" Allison, were gents of stature, and their loss proved costly to Wesleyan under the backboard...