Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phenomenal record of litigation behind him, including at least 89 lawsuits in the Boston area alone...
...purchase of the hotel as a front for Client Goldfine, oversaw the title search and made the option payment from his personal bank account. Goldfine repaid Cotton for the option, but it was still necessary for Cotton to take final title to the hotel. As far as the public record is concerned, Cotton still holds the title, although he says he has filed with Goldfine a letter stating that he was Goldfine's agent in buying the hotel and would turn the property over to Goldfine or to Lebandale Mills whenever desired. Fifteen years later, the transfer has still...
Last week, the Tufts group showed us what all the British have been shouting about: they staged Agatha Christie's murder mystery The Mousetrap, which is still running in London after six years and holds the all-time record for commercial longevity. It is a fairly neat and entertaining piece of construction, though the characters are all clear stereotypes. But it certainly ranks lower than such other examples as Dial M for Murder and Witness for the Prosecution...
...wonders of the ancient world with figures from a pagan sacred grove. With sphinxes on either side of the entrance to give fair warning, Vicino Orsini did all he could to create the impression that some otherworldly spirit had brought the strange stone figures into existence, left no record of who the actual sculptors or stonecutters were...
...vast, air-conditioned restaurant with sweeping glass windows, thin, tanned women and fat, pale men peered over thick steaks and cool drinks at the dirt track below. Roosevelt Raceway, the orange-and-magenta pleasure dome at Westbury, N.Y. was having its biggest harness-racing season in history. A record $144 million had been bet in the first 82 days of the meeting. For the highlight Messenger Stake* prize money had reached $108,565, making it the richest pacing race of all time...