Word: toms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent to Jay Gould for $30,000, the last stick of sealing wax he had been...
...support 900 million people, but only a scant 4,000,000 occupy the area, two-thirds of them caboclos, who live in huts, fish and loll in hammocks. Japan is one source of newcomers who seem immune to the easy-living lethargy that strikes native Brazilians and Indians. At Tomé Acu, below Belém, the Japanese have helped to carve out one of the world's biggest pepper plantations. At nearby Guama colony, they are working round the clock to supply Belém with food. Outside Manaus. others have turned cleared jungle into lush truck gardens...
Third Man on the Mountain (Buena Vista) may well become a children's classic of the screen, a sort of Tom Sawyer in the Alps. Based on James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky, the film describes the Alpine adventures of a teen-aged Swiss village boy (James MacArthur) who vows he will be the first climber to reach the top of the Matterhorn (known in the script as The Citadel) or die in the attempt as his father died before him. He joins the expedition of an English mountaineer (Michael Rennie) as a porter...
Center halfback Tom Gleason tallied for Eliot on a penalty shot with ten minutes gone in the second half to tie the score at 1 to 1. A few minutes later, Ralph Hellmold, right inside, took the ball from 25 yards out, eluded two Calhoun defenders, and fired past the goalie for the deciding point...
...halfback line of Marsh McCall, Bill Rapp, and Charlie Steele should win the battle of the middle of the field. Fullback Lanny Keyes, in good shape for the first time in weeks, will start at fullback, along with the immensely improved Tim Morgan. Tom Bagnoll, broken hand and all, is ready to continue his inspirational performance in the nets...