Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the Paris stock market Machines Bull stock has lately been tracing a spectacular trajectory of its own. From $118 a year and a half ago, the 657,600 shares of Machines Bull jumped to more than $260 per share in September. The company recently announced plans to raise more...
Greenough was not the only one surprised by the board's action. Previous top candidate for the job: Greenough's own boss, James P. Newell, 57, vice president of operations. Greenough had not been considered in the running. But railroadmen gossiped that other vice presidents were scrambling so...
Squalling Grammarians. Traditional translations make much of Homer's epithets (Hera is "white-armed"; Odysseus generally "crafty"). Graves uses them sparingly, and sometimes ironically. The gods are treated with something less than respect; Zeus is a blowhard who hardly ever means what he says, and Hera, his wife, might...
Joyce always liked to say that Nora Barnacle had come "sauntering" into his life out of the Dublin hotel where she worked as a waitress. The first day they went walking together was June 16, 1904, and Joyce always regarded it so romantically that he made it Bloomsday. the day...
Newsstands all over Boston were mobbed yesterday by people trying to buy out-of-town newspapers as the local branch of the International Typographical Union continued its strike.