Word: amassed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their net) before paying a cent of taxes. Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with...
...decisions is the Corporation's way of reaching them and it is here that the Senior Fellows deserve the most applause. The time they spent, the painstaking way they worked, the care they showed for every relevant fact they could unearth, and the anxiousness they showed to amass the views of faculty members--these show the immense store of fairness and rationality that the Corporation brought to this most vexed issue. Compared to the fury and irrationality which marked the investigation's usual impact, the Corporation's quiet and thorough procedure deserves high tribute...
...building his case. "It's all caused by congestion underneath the follicle layer--he pointed to his overgrown follicle wood. Our treatments will clean out that congestion and revitalize your hair." He walked over to a fluoroscope device on one wall and pressed a button. A translucent projection of amass of blood vessels and a cross section of a solitary, but evidently from his description, healthy hair lit up one wall. Another switch and another drawing appeared, this time a sickly follicle--my type from what I could gather...
Hopes for a Crimson first-place fell when defending one-meter diving champion Pete Dillingham finished second behind Yale's Kenny Welch. Welch exhibited near-perfect form on two dives to amass 155.8 points, compared to Dillingham's 148.17. Navy's Owen Davies flubbed one dive and wound up third with 145.87 points...
Against Brown, the varsity mounted five scoring offensives, the shortest of 57 yards duration, the longest an impressive 75 yards. And although Brown managed to tie the count once at 7 to 7, the outcome was never really uncertain: the Crimson running attack, which was to amass 22 first downs, was just not stopable...