Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friendly and unpretentious man, Dumas Milner might well consider himself tired. At 18 he borrowed $100 to attend a business school in Chillicothe, Mo., came home after 90 days $480 richer, thanks to a weekly raffle of men's suits that he conducted on the side. He then borrowed $3,500 more to buy a petroleum distributorship in Mississippi, gradually added a tank-truck fleet and a string of service stations. Drafted into the Air Force during World War II, Milner found that the Army did not require all of his talent. While making $68 a month...
...Dutch rule ended and independence was achieved in 1830. In the north are the farm lands of Flanders, inhabited by a conservative, Catholic people with deep roots in Holland; in the south the spiritedly liberal, anticlerical Walloons occupy what once was the seat of France's Carolingian monarchy. Richer and better educated, the Walloons for a century dominated the country; so seared with bitterness were the Flemings at their second-rate position that many openly collaborated with the Nazis during World...
...Willie McCovey. A single means the ball game. Terry throws, McCovey swings. Crack! Second Baseman Bobby Richardson flings out his glove. Plunk. Joy, sorrow, delirium, despair-and cut to razor-blade commercial. For the 20th time in 27 tries, the New York Yankees are the world champions of baseball, richer by something like...
Exeter, though often mentioned in tandem with Andover, is significantly different. Exeter has put up only one new building in 30 years, but is richer (endowment: $35.2 million, book value). It began actively recruiting poor boys long before Andover. Though it gives fewer scholarships to fewer students, it gives bigger ones, reaches deeper into low-income groups...
...which punch had finished him. Disguised in a beard that he bought before the fight, he drove home to Scarsdale, N.Y., to await his $1,185,253 share of the $2,183,750 take. In the dressing room, newsmen pressed in on the new champion, himself $282,015 richer for his brief night's work. "Wait a minute. Wait a minute," hollered Liston's pressagent to the yelling mob. "This here is the heavyweight champion of the world. This is Mr. Liston. Let's treat him as you would the President of the United States...