Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malcolm Young, submits figures which taken at their face value prove Princeton undergraduates bookishly inclined. In addition to texts required in courses ten per cent of the students take out two books weekly, 40 per cent average one book a fortnight, and the remainder read sporadically but a respectable amount...
Since books of ethical intent are among the most popular at Princeton, there must be in other colleges a considerable amount of interest in the subject. That the place of science in life concerns the undergraduate is encouraging. If only a few retain this interest, America will benefit. To a nation accused of money madness, devotees of a less economic and more abstract subject than business bring a healthy balance. Mr. Young's few statistics disclose a desirable tendency...
...recently 'established a world record in the annals of flying by spending 700 hours in the air without a single accident of any kind. President Coolidge presented him the Schiff Memorial Trophy, a prize awarded annually to the outstanding flyer of the United States Navy who spends the greatest amount of time in the air without accident...
Your press representative on this article is either unsound or miserably incompetent at his occupation, and if neither of these, I must say that he carries a certain amount of prejudice which is plainly observed in this article...
...took extraordinary delight in the amount of poetry he could prepare for a single morning's edition of the newspaper, and often he published doggerel that was very far from being musical, or was ludicrous alliterative nonsense like this...