Word: brobdignagian
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Concord is a Jekyll and Hyde course with an exacting first six holes and a relatively nondescript back nine. The golfer who can negotiate the Brobdignagian hazards of the early holes without incident is usually on his way to a sub-80 round...
...worth $1,119,000,000. There was only one big thing wrong: the depression had come-and with it the paper empire of USEPCO collapsed. With it Emanuel lost most of his personal fortune. The holding-company act, which was passed to put a stop to just such brobdignagian jiggery-pokery as USEPCO, put the headstone on V.E.'s empire. But Emanuel & friends salvaged something good from the wreck. They kept control of Standard Gas and its underwriting, profited on the issues until SEC stopped the practice...
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