Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water has cascaded over Niagara Falls between 1776 and a summery night last week when the great-great-great-grandson of England's George in was trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.," may I take the liberty of suggesting that the amount of said water is calculable...
Significance. The practical issue between the President and Congress last week was out of all proportion to the amount of heat engendered. Under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, with the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may purchase gold "in any amounts at home or abroad with any direct obligations, coin or currency of the U. S." The price of gold for all practical purposes determines the exchange value of the dollar. If the Secretary should choose to pay $40 an oz. for gold instead of $35 he would in effect devalue the dollar...
...long time, they said, researchers have known that cancer cells consume an abnormally small amount of oxygen. To find out why, Drs. Davis and Schmitz probed an enormous rat tumor, discovered small pockets of poisonous cyanogen gas along its borders. They also confirmed the presence of cyanogen along the edges of a human tumor. Cyanogen gas, in minute amounts, is a normal cellular waste product, ordinarily passed out into the blood stream through porous cell walls...
...Premier Duke, Marquess & Earl of Ireland, was not domiciled in Scotland. To prove it the court quoted from his earlier declaration: "My departure from Scotland has been really to suit my wife. She one said she could not live with blackfaced sheep and lochs and I saw a certain amount of truth in that...
...amount asked by President Roosevelt). This is down $773,000,000 from the total spent by WPA in fiscal 1939-but no one supposed it will not be added to before fiscal 1940 ends...