Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will stick to my workaday business of prognostication and set you all straight on what the weekend holds in store. I am forced modestly to admit that I was pretty good last week. The amount of money I saved Princeton men (I'm not one to bear grudge) ran into four figures, not counting dollar sings and decimal points. Mine has well been called the most sensational comeback since Sheridan's return to the Union army at Winchester. (N.B.--All historical references are supplied by Joe, Jr, a bright little chap...
...because I have never been able to find out what the word meant. The legendary Harvard man is rather "moist" (a belittling term), but that is because the originators of the numerous stories had good imaginations. Actually he seems to know quite a little about life a considerable amount to be candid. Whether he is right or not is nobody's concern. If song and story were infallible estimations of Harvard mentality, the chances are that he would be a trifle mistaken. And at this point it might be well to admit that the good stories about Yale...
According to King Alfonso, the proposed tunnel would cost around 250,000,000 pesetas ($48,250,000), which he declared to be a small amount compared to the advantages that Spain would reap from a commercial undersea road to Africa...
...field outside of the general run of the college curriculum, it is nevertheless true that these men had a definite object in view and they persevered until they got it. Their display of initiative was spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case, the students were brought into the limelight, more so, perhaps, than their actions merited, since similar exhibitions of initiative in the regular scheduled...
...Wall Street is being turned into the bond market. Ordinarily this would increase prices for these securities. It has not because last week investors were asked to buy $189,115,000 in new issues. They, or brokers for them, bought them all. The introduction of new bonds for that amount raised the total of new issues for October to the largest figure for any month of the year...