Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year Yant was going strong; he had raked in $242,000 and still had considerable acreage left. But the customers finally got restive. Con-Man Yant ended up doing two years at San Quentin...
Last week 154 wells were pumping on one 80-acre tract and 4,000,000 of the pool's estimated 18 million barrels had been sucked out. Though the Placerita boom had knocked the price of crude oil from $2.16 to $1.53 a barrel in Los Angeles, onetime Con-Man Yant and many another were getting rich. Yant was also insisting, to whoever would listen, that the oil find "vindicated" him. "Some people think I'm a scoundrel and some think I'm a wonderful guy-depending on whether they made or didn't make money...
...rally was lit by floodlights and punctuated by firecrackers. Hickman, Jackson, and Albie Booth, former Yale great, appeared to say a few words. Three female cheerleaders also showed up, with rally leaders explaining, "If Harvard con...
Father Feeney's insistence that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church has been the cause of the con- troversy which has gene on between the Archbishop and the Jesuits, on the one hand, and Father Feeney, on the other, since October 1947. Last January Father Feeney was "deprived on his faculties" by Archbishop Cushing. This meant that he could no longer say Mass or hear confession...
...could not be discerned by the more sage experts on Owlology) last year chose the Yard as his own domain. He (or she) sadly diminished the ranks of local pigeonry, thus causing furious partisanship among Yardlings. The advocates of campus cleanliness were decidedly pro-Owl, while the pig-con-squirrel lovers began to sport bows and arrows. The SPCA decreed that harming the Owl would upset the entire local balance of nature; budding politicos tried to capture it for Smoker campaigns; LIFE took its picture; but the Harvard Owl finally vanished as mysteriously as it had come...