blue blood
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It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
In the brave new world of college football, blue blood means nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
He also came from Belgium by way of UC Santa Barbara—a far cry from a college hoops blue blood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Part of the fun in discussions of who qualifies as a blue blood is that there’s rarely consensus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
State what you can in relation to blue blood.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
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