Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assumed that the latter class is in fact not a myth in order to justify a review of one of their productions; for the first mentioned class will go to see it no matter what the reviewer says, and the second mentioned couldn't by any amount of persuasion be induced to view such a spectacle after their initial experience...
...fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely to emerge for a few years. And so the man who likes his football with a proper amount of preface and aftermath is still in style. Whether the overemphasis on the preface and the virtual elimination of the aftermath can be in any way compensated for, is a question which will probably hold the new system in abeyance until its satisfactory solution...
This is taken as an indication that Horween and his assistants consider the condition of the players to be very good for the amount of work they have had. After another day of conditioning work today the first squad will probably get its first real hard playing when it faces the seconds in scrimmage Saturday morning. The practices have been remarkable for the subordination of the individual player to the general teamwork so far, and this will probably continue to be the case at least until Saturday's scrimmage...
...opinion handed down by the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue found that teachers may enjoy Section 214(a)1 of the law which says a taxpayer may deduct from his income tax all "traveling expenses (including the entire amount expended for meals and lodging) while away from home in the pursuit of a trade or business...
...land has dwindled until now there remains only about 600,000 sq. mi. (U. S. square mileage: 2,973,000). Of this . amount 209,000 sq. mi. is in national forests, carefully conserved. Oil and mineral reserves take up 62,000 sq. mi., national parks, 11,700 sq. mi. There remain 302,000 sq. mi. of just plain common land, unreserved and unappropriated. It is fit only for cattle-grazing for which it has been used so hard that in a score of years it has deteriorated 50%. In another 20 years it will become worthless. Before that happens President...