Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cannot something be done about this spirit-sapping parasite? Like a leech it clings to our educational system: why? no one knows. Final examinations are little more than comprehensive reviews of the amount of information a student receives in a given course, while they could be made to be objective and really useful...
...TIME produced by organized labor, I do not expect you to change your policy because of the criticism of one or of a thousand subscribers. . . . In view of the circumstances, however, I am asking you to cancel my subscription to TIME. Please submit a bill for the amount due you, and I will send a check by return mail...
...beers, and permitted to dispose of such fluids only under a permit system based upon the status of each purchaser-the head of a family to be sold not more than a gallon of "hard liquors" a month, single women not more than a gallon a year, restaurants an amount proportionate to their proven sales of food. To the Swede who dines in restaurants there may be brought unlimited "hard liquors" if the diner orders and pays for an additional meal with each round...
...Scripps-Howard chain and as organizer of the flourishing Newspaper Enterprise Association (feature service). His ability and personality had won him a host of friends in town and through the state, and his company was said to have a cool million dollars in hand-not an extravagant amount to start on, by any means, but most formidable in Editor Earle Martin's adept hands...
From Mount Holyoke comes news of the latest undergraduate investigation of the educational system. And by that chance which has been causing no small amount of surprise since the analytical custom originated, the students have hit upon several constructive ideas. Apparently, Holyoke has been suffering from that form of cultural indigestion which attends an unchecked elective system. Diversity of choice has resulted in a hodge-podge of courses which served the educational god of distribution without proportionate respect for his twin, concentration...