Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Academy came into the IAB with a string of 34 victories over top prep school and college freshman competition. It left on the short end of a 96-58 score...
...toughest team the freshmen played this year was Dartmouth. Doggie Julian, the Indians' varsity coach, reportedly spent as much time with the freshmen as he did with the Green first string. But the unawed freshmen, behind by eleven points in the second period, came back to pound out a 68-55 victory...
...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
...both struck it rich. Now each owns or controls an empire estimated at upwards of $300 million ; Richardson's wealth is even believed by some to be greater than that of Texan H. L. Hunt, estimated at $500 million or more. He owns a Texas City refinery, a string of cattle ranches, a radio and television chain, a drugstore chain, and, with Texas Publisher Amon G. Carter, the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth...
Servants' Servants. Florida's new boom bears little resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers...