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...Rockefeller (who made a habit of impregnating the servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when he had it, he tied the bills in bundles with twine and stacked them in a dresser drawer like cordwood. It was from his charlatan/shaman father that the boy John acquired the knowledge that money is magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John D. Rockefeller: Oil In The Family | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...player is singeing the twine for Brown this season, they have been getting production from a wide variety of sources, which is both a blessing and a curse...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Hits Road for Ivy Games | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

...gurgling stream cascades through lavish tropical undergrowth. Orchids twine among ferns; palm fronds weave a dense canopy. But those palms bend a trifle too symmetrically, and there is something mechanical about the way a monarch butterfly flutters its wings. In fact, "it's all an illusion," says Linda Lewis, creator of this ersatz jungle. She is in about as specialized a business as exists: creating artificial environments, including the synthetic palms at the Mirage in Las Vegas. It is a business, however, that has taken off worldwide in the past decade or so. As more and more states and localities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THINKING BIG | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...third period was more of a cebration of sorts--especially for sophomore Craig MacDonald. After being held without a goal for 53 straight periods, MacDonald finally tickled the twine with less than three minutes to go in the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Hockey Demolishes RPI, Loses to Union | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

Despite the continuing pressure in the period, Nicklin stymied the offense and Harvard would tickle the twine no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Icemen Thwarted In Holiday Visit to Minnesota | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

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