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Word: amounting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Books, stationery, and periodicals are sold by 11 stores, a number indicative of the amount of reading and writing done by Harvard men. There are three florists, six druggists, four jewelry stores, and three sporting goods concerns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easier to Find a Dentist in Harvard Square Than to Locate a Restaurant--Lawyers Outnumber the Laundries | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...surprising to find 28 dentists and only 20 restaurants, but no more so than to discover 14 lawyers, 11 laundries, and nine barber shops. Evidently Cantabrigians in this vicinity believe in preserving their beauty, for there are 11 beauty and massage shops; the amount of student patronage is unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easier to Find a Dentist in Harvard Square Than to Locate a Restaurant--Lawyers Outnumber the Laundries | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming one which include an extra holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK-END | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...glance around any modern bookshop is proof that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAIN AND THE CHAFF | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

...Criminal Code provides that the fine for bribery may be three times the amount of the bribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Felon | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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