Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frequently ejects matter from its atmosphere and R Coronae Borealis may very well do likewise. This cast-off material, reasons Astronomer O'Keefe, condenses rapidly, since it is carbon, and forms a sooty cloud which obscures the light of the stars. One per cent of the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere of R Coronae Borealis could cut out 99% of its light. Astronomer O'Keefe supposes that as the cloud dissipates the stars appear bright again...
...other five and the amount of their contracts: Benjamin Franklin Foundation, Inc., $4,000,000; Income Estates of America, Inc., $20,000,000; Capital Savings Plans, Inc., $25,000,000; Financial Independence Founders, Inc., $19,000,000; Continental Guaranteed Deposits...
...fifth that amount Henry's good friend George last week bought a reported one-half interest in all the properties. To explain this extraordinary bargain. George says Henry has been extremely ill for several years, that he himself will take over active management of the enterprises for his friend...
First meetings of courses are starting today in several of the Graduate Schools and will be held Wednesday and Thursday in the College. Upperclassmen will spend a varying amount of time between now and tomorrow afternoon picking their courses for the first half year...
...conception of education demands that the students will work hard and consistently on some straight "path" toward some nebulous "goal". It is taken for granted that the aspiring candidate for an A.B. will not waste time, that every hour of his working day will be used for acquiring that amount of knowledge which brands him an educated man. So inhuman are most of those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing for himself directly...