fortune

Our personal fortunes are our life and death.

For a program that has spent the best part of a century getting stomped on by the big bullies of the Southeastern Conference, it marks an unlikely upturn in fortunes.

All four of their wins have been by one score, which is often a sign of good fortune.

Merchants could suddenly earn fortunes rivaling the landholding nobility, and strange ideas could undermine intellectual elites.

Why would a brilliant chemist and geologist the youngest scientist to be elected to the Royal Society of London, in 1787—leave a fortune to a nation he had never seen?