Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other players, only Katherine Standing, Richard Whorf, and Rose Gordon held parts of any considerable importance. Briggs of Scotland Yard was played by C. Wordley Huke, but the part was so typically that of a stage detective, that the importance of the role was hardly proportionate to the amount of time given it. Miss Standing was not quite successful in leaping the obstacle mentioned at the start of this article, and though the mechanics of her acting were effect, her personality was ill-suited to the portrayal of a daughter of a cheap London boarding house. Her Cockney accent left...
...scholarships which amount to approximately $250 each, have been established by four separate endowments. The Harvard Law School Association Scholarship provides for ten awards and the Class of 1913 fund provides for two scholarships...
...Presidents heard its Chairman, William A. Law, President of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., read some reports. He said that there are 54,000,000 policyholders in the U. S., and that they carry $72,000,000,000 in life insurance. The total invested assets of the companies amount to $11,400,000,000. The average insurance carried by each policyholder is $1,333, and the payments this year totaled $1,500,000,000, which is nearly ten times what was paid...
...Change the water every twelve hours, but remember that too sudden a change of temperature may kill the fish. Therefore pour off only haK of the old water and add the same amount of cool, clean water. Fill the cans not more than three-quarters full, as too much water does not leave enough room...
...epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable amount of sympathy...