Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolution paid in haste fines imposed by Dictator Primo de Rivera, considered themselves lucky that no worse befell them. General Weyler, relying on his prestige with the Spanish army, curtly refused to pay his fine. Promptly Dictator Primo, not easily balked, sent a detail of police to seize the amount of the fine from General Weyler's bank...
...Coolidge had announced his determination to keep the next fiscal year appropriations at $3,200,000,000. Due chiefly to subsequent pension legislation, he was unable last week to cut the estimate below $3,270,000,000 even after blue-penciling $100,000,000 worth of proposals. The amount of the budget allowed for prohibition enforcement will be well over $30,000,000, last year's amount...
...death over his patients. Gratitude for present escape and trepidation for the future combine to stimulate the gift. Waiters must be content with less. Fifteen percent on checks under two dollars, ten percent over that. On all checks between seven and eleven dollars a dollar is the correct amount...
...workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves. . . ." The facts of this accident as reported by TIME do not differ materially from those cited by Captain King. None the less TIME did not explicitly state that the pumping of a small amount of air into the lifting pontoons on the day in question was but a preliminary action, not intended to produce the disastrous raising of the bow, which actually resulted from an unpredictable and unexpected relaxation of the sea bottom's grip upon the S-51. To Captain King thanks...
Anyway, no amount of agitation will secure the Negroes either the ballot or dinner invitations...