Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of work done rather than the kind was evidently what President Coolidge had to admire. Reapportionment of popular representation and disposal of the Boulder Dam bill were the gravest omissions. Disagreement on farm-relief and failure to vote at least some of the Big Navy, after Europe had been made to understand the U. S. really needs more ships, were the gravest embarrassments...
...Pennsylvania, head coach of the Olympic team, to enter the final tryouts to be held in the stadium on July 6 and 7 without qualifying in previous meets. This privilege has been granted him because preparations for his Law School examinations have prevented him from getting in a needed amount of practice on the cinder track. In the few sprints that he has taken in the Stadium this spring, Miller has shown good form and has been comparatively consistent in equaling and breaking ten seconds on the 100-yard dash. He has entered the Melrose meet, but his entry...
Such an offspring of the contest introduced this spring was not at all foreseen by the sporting prognosticators, to whom the derided "scholastic meet" was food for no little amount of ridicule. The glory of victory in this type of combat is indeed not of the strike-up-the-band manner; nor is it to be placed among any categories of the past. It is, like the contest itself, of more subtle stuff, and the exchange of thoughts and progress between universities is not the least of its merits...
Massachusetts has given most for the Sargent Memorial Fund, with $481.197 to date: New York follows with contributions totalling $330.570: Illinois has given $69,595. Delaware $24.880, and Pennsylvania $2.615. Scattered gifts from other parts of the country amount...
...contained radium and mesothorium salts which continually shoot out Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays. Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Chief Medical Examiner of Essex County found 95% of these to be Alpha rays. Most of the paint the girls swallowed was eliminated through the intestinal tract; a small but daily accumulating amount was absorbed; deposited in the bones, spleen, liver. While the girls worked, played, slept, the paint shot out its rays. Alpha rays cannot travel very far. In the bones they do not need to. The centre of bone, as everyone knows, is marrow; in this marrow are bloodmaking elements...