Word: hancocks
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Second, the Sox have a long history of rushing players through their farm system. Boston has one of the best farm systems around, but player after player from Rogilio Moret, to Gary Hancock, to Oil Can Boyd this year, was pushed too fast and suffered for it. Now, no player will tell the team he needs another year in the minors, but Lee drives home the point that the team's desire to win at the moment hurt it in the long...
...been a mean year at Claiborne. The master of the farm, Seth Hancock, was also the main syndicator of Devil's Bag, thought to be a superhorse last year when a $36 million breeding future was arranged. Following lame three-year-old performances, he was actually declared slightly lame and retired to stud at Claiborne. In Trainer Woody Stephens' barn and heart, Swale started the year a second-stringer. What Swale's worth as a stallion might have been and how much insurance covered him are included in the mystery. But $50 million and $15 million...
...Owings, 81, boisterous co-founder and senior partner of the architectural leviathan Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who presided over more than $3 billion of construction during his 40-year career, including such prestigious and innovative design commissions as New York City's Lever House, Chicago's towering John Hancock Building, and San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach Building; of lung cancer; in Jacona...
...April 11, 1775 President Samuel Langdon sent Hancock a letter threatening to replace him, but the treasurer did not respond. A series of follow-up letters went similarly unanswered and the situation deteriorated until the Corporation sent a tutor to look for Hancock, then in hiding during the Revolution, and retrieve the records. He failed and Hancock remained treasurer until his death, when he left *16,000 of unsettled University accounts and a personal debt to Harvard of *1495, for money he had unscrupuously borrowed...
Ebenezer Storer, a Boston merchant, replaced Hancock in the early 1780s, and with the help of fellow Fellow John Lowell he turned the University's finances around and made Harvard financially independent of the legislature. In 1789 the College held public securities worth more than *10,000. By carefully watching market rates they converted Harvard's assets to dollars, so that in, 1793 the College's portfolio amounted to more than $182,000., three times as much as 15 years before...