Word: island
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhode Island State 86. Bates...
...Eagles stirred up some noise in the Boston press by beating Rhode Island State freshman 58 to 56. They have more height than Boston University and might do a better shooting job over the Yardling's man-to-man defense...
...advantage of a fellow from out West." (They weren't; Hilton now regretfully estimates the Ritz to be worth at least $2,500,000.) Instead, for $300,000, he bought control of the Roosevelt, which bustles with salesmen and is as different from the Town House as Coney Island is from Beverly Hills. The Roosevelt deal established Hilton in New York and got him the backing he wanted from such moneybags as Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium. With the help of Odium, Hilton paid out $7,400,000 for New York's stately old Plaza, which...
...lure U.S. capital and industrialists to the island, the Puerto Rican government grants tax exemption to many new industries until...
...Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons had never surrendered either their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that when Charles, 2yth Lord of Walton, grafted a mad passion for wild life onto the old family root of religious fervor, the resulting bloom resembled a Jesuit seminary disguised...