Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crafting the first major multinational corporation, Standard Oil, Rockefeller (1839-1937) provided a sneak preview of the 20th century. At his zenith, he refined, distributed and marketed nearly 90% of America's oil. The unlikely offspring of a raffish snake-oil salesman and a strict Baptist mother, Rockefeller grew up in several rustic hamlets in upstate New York and Ohio. He began his career as an assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland, Ohio, commodity-brokerage house in 1855 and invested in his first refinery during the Civil...
...cook, read, travel, read and then read some more with your kids. If reading becomes the primary form of entertainment in the home, youngsters will turn to books. My best moments were when the kids were naughty and told they could not read. Ahh, the pleasure of catching them "sneak reading." Killing our television was the best thing we ever did. BRIDGET BOYLE Corona, Calif...
Early in the second half, Harvard's pressurecontinued. In the 50th minute, junior midfielderArmando Petruccelli fired an indirect kick on goalthat was punched out by Princeton goalkeeper JeffGillie before it could sneak into the right cornerof...
...illusion that the 100 best list is a real news story by encouraging groups to respond with their own revised lists. The Radcliffe Publishing course, full of young professionals about to enter the field, took on that particular task. The Radcliffe group did a laudable job, even managing to sneak Winnie the Pooh in between Heart of Darkness and Their Eyes Were Watching God. But they should be aware that in creating their own list, they are contributing to the success of the very project that they are trying to debunk...
During the play, some fans chatted with friends, while others were more attentive, clearly interested in getting a sneak peak at the 1998-99 Crimson team...