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Word: rakings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paltry $67,000 spread over 235 transactions, the shop in Birmingham's West End was able to rake in goods valued at some $2 million. On the list: 113 automobiles, four motorcycles, firearms, musical instruments, vacuum cleaners, window fans, chain saws, space heaters, clocks, credit cards, shoes, boots, digital weighing scales and an American flag a thief used to wrap booty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail Sale: Where cupidity bred stupidity | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Although Lois T. Murphy '84 wasn't starving, she certainly didn't rake in the type of money that some of her classmates...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Money or Morals: Law Students and Their Summer Jobs | 9/19/1985 | See Source »

...youthful Boswell was the consummate rake. The young Scot visited London and spent his days gaping at sights and groveling for favor from potential wealthy patrons, and his evenings copulating beneath London Bridge or lying in bed suffering the ravages of venereal disease. But, as Brady strives to make clear, Boswell's rapacious libido represented only a portion of the make-up of a man whose life also included a vibrant spectrum of people, events, pressures, pleasures and misfortunes...

Author: By Nicholas T. Dawidoff, | Title: Biographer Biographied | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...song of the subcontinent, Lakmé, and mounted an operatic staging of Stephen Sondheim's Grand Guignol Broadway masterpiece, Sweeney Todd; next month it presents Philip Glass's new opera Akhnaten. Splendid singing? Clarion-voiced Tenor Jerry Hadley shone as Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and the company's impressive roster of young sopranos this season includes Kaaren Erickson, Elizabeth Hynes and Elizabeth Knighton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Champagne Time for Beverly Sills | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...exulted. But the biggest winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone. In fact, ticket sales are so brisk that this year the state figures to rake in $520 million in profit from $1.14 billion in lottery bets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling on a Way to Trim Taxes | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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