Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RICHARD S. LAMBERT Toronto...
...temperature rose to 52° in Montreal, 57° in Toronto, 62° in Windsor. Carefree citizens kicked off their galoshes, doffed their heavy overcoats to enjoy one of the warmest, longest and most widespread January thaws in recorded weather history...
...midseason, three steamed-up teams were virtually tied for the National Hockey League lead, with a fourth within easy swatting distance. Montreal's high-flying Canadiens, minus their star goalie, Bill Durnan (broken hand), squared off last week against Toronto, and got licked 5-to-4. Potent Detroit flattened the Boston Bruins, but lost capable Syd Howe (possible fractured rib) in the business of winning...
Like many Unitarians, tall, wide-eyed Van Paassen was born in another faith,* like many he came from a family of clergymen. As a youth in Toronto (whence his family migrated from The Netherlands) he studied theology, was so fascinated by preaching that he chose the Methodist seminary because it offered opportunity for field work. But World War I interrupted his religious studies, sent him to France as a volunteer in the Canadian expeditionary force. Later, as roving correspondent for the late great New York World, he gained the high-powered inside information on European politics that made Days...
...Canada gathered around a small straw-covered arena. Most of them wore ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and levis. So the most important figure of the day looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...