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Jazz-age New York, complete with jaded journalists, drug-addicted nightclub singers and power-mad industrial magnates, is an inviting cosmos and a perfect setting for Esko's driving ambition to flourish.

Cloud Sketcher: Summary and book reviews of Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner. 2001

By 1879, the League's owners -- they referred to themselves as "magnates" -- had had it with players who would "revolve" from one club to another during a season in order to pick up a few extra dollars.

Roger I. Abrams: A League of Their Own 2010

"And so we came to Battimansa, where the river was narrowed down to about a mile in breadth," where Cadamosto offered presents to the King, and made a great speech before the negro magnates, which is abridged in the narrative, "lest the matter should become a great Iliad."

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911

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A Far Country — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909

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A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

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Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Address of the Assembly; but no member of the Canadian Legislature ventured to justify the provisions of the Imperial Act, and very few ventured to vote in favour of its continuance, even upon the ground of expediency, in behalf of the "magnates" of two favourable Churches.

The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842

"magnates" will be watched and appropriate steps taken to counteract their failure to cooperate.

TV INTERVIEW 1959

Peter Huntsman joked about the "Mormon mafia" as he showed older photos of Huntsman Sr. with hotel magnates Bill Marriott and his father, John Willard Marriott, after whom Willard Mitt Romney is named.

Let t h e ir games b e gin 2011

(Magnates still have bodyguards, but no longer to protect them from other magnates.)

Paul Graham on Software Patents, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009