Word: amassed
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Birdhouse for Bluebirds. The man who created this U.S. showcase was born and reared in the Arkansas university town of Fayetteville (pop. 18,069). First member of the Stone family to go to Arkansas was Ed Stone's grandfather, taciturn Stephen K. Stone, who managed to amass such a fortune in real estate and merchandise that he was known as "the Richest Man in Washington County." His sons, including Ed's father, Benjamin Hicks Stone, were raised in Southern comfort, so well off none of them troubled to work very hard...
...intensifying its money-raising campaign, Radcliffe is following the Harvard lead. "We need to amass an endowment per student similar to that of Harvard," Dean Sherman said...
...reversing that economic process, we might well bring about a situation in which a status society could be re-achieved. One of the most desirable features of such a society would be a peasantry, in addition to a sturdy yeomanry. On the other hand, those who would "amass fortunes" as a result of the proposed amendment might well be granted titles of nobility and could become rural squires, exercising a benevolent authority over their beloved peasantry. Add to this the "mythology of rustics, beggars, and the like," and the imagination traverses the years to a new America of which even...
...financial terms, the reduced tax-bite will once again allow us amass fortunes (we assume it will be "us" rather than "those"). But the main and most beneficial aspect of the amendment is that it will give American society what it has never possessed, or at least has never had a sufficient number of--a peasantry. For if the rich don't pay graduated taxes, the masses will have to pay more, and that should not only push down the rising middle classes, but will certainly so lower the lower class that it will actually become quaint...
Last year, Manhattan nipped the Wildcats, while the varsity finished well back in the field. A fourth place finish by the mile relay team were the only points the varsity could amass...