Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.
And of course when we turn our attention to golf, we think of Tiger, the former Olympian god recently made man.
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He is the classic self-made man, having started 40 years ago when a building boom led to a shortage of window frames.
Wang was thin and angular, with the bearing of a self-made man.
The 86-year-old Mitchell, the son of a Greek immigrant, father of ten, and self-made man, ranks as the 347th richest man in the world.
There is no such thing as a self-made man.
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That sort of de haut en bas can get out of hand of course: one self-made man, Michael Heseltine, has been sneered at because he bought his own furniture rather than inheriting it.
Petropolis group, the second largest brewery and beverage company in Brazil owned by self made man Walter Faria, has been very successful with TNT brand, growing 262% in three years and reaching sales of 60 million cans in 2011.
Our carbon emissions would have to be slashed with strict targets set and met by 2050 to avert catastrophe but this was essentially a man-made problem with man-made solutions.
It's - it was a man-made structure, but any man-made structure, I'm sure to say any good civil engineer, is going to tell you, you - there's contingency plan you have...
Initially, at least, this "man-made" biodiversity will be far too small and slow to compensate for man-made extinctions, but it's worth noting the possibility.
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It was the signature move made by Man Group CEO Peter Clarke, who was looking for a way to increase growth.
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Poorni Bid says Kashkari's intensity made the man she and other classmates called Rocket Scientist seem wise and competent beyond his years.
His over confident tone of voice, evident sense of self superiority, and the gleaming cheap smile he had seen only once, made the man intolerable.
His father, Pietro, was a successful cloth merchant in a time when the mercantile class was on the rise and clothes very much made the man.
This near-universal appetite is evident not only in what people say (even in conservative Muslim countries, where God-given sharia can be more popular than any law made by man, people tell opinion pollsters they want to elect their own governments).
It was a departure from the traditional wooden structure and was made of wrought iron, oak, and a man-made product, avonite.
"The seal pup had made its way into the lorry park via a steep, man-made banking, " he said.
The causes are man made and have come to dominate Nature's global nitrogen cycle.
Fracking Fluid has caused poisoned ground water flowing through new man made cracks in all directions.
In fact, such times were made for a man of Otto Reich's background, expertise and skills.
The former Manchester City man made amends in the most spectacular style possible in the ninth minute.
The Fuller Brush man made regular rounds in our Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City.
But how does the starring role of a man made out of wood manage to successfully lead a production?
The man made a slight sobbing sound, as the Detective stared him down.
Fine was fired 10 days later when a third man made similar claims.
Note I say 'suggest' because the final decision is made by the man in the middle, not the third umpire.
It played up to the female viewers, airing an ad entirely made of a man in underwear flexing his abs.
The man made a number of complaints to Cleveland Police and appealed to the IPCC when they were not upheld.
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