Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote of the audience was to be the only judge of the merits of the debate as presented. It was decided to have the audience vote on the question of the debate both before and after the debaters have spoken, thereby having the victory determined entirely by the amount of persuasion that a team can bring to bear upon its hearers...
...Nothing like the amount that is generally reported by a curious public," retorted the Beaver Man, and declined to be specific...
Appears at breakfast table promptly at 8, sips orange juice and coffee, eats a fair amount of oatmeal, nibbles bits of toast, rolls, eggs, bacon; gives new dimes or nickels to servants and guests. He has distributed some 22,000 of these gleaming coins in the last two decades. To those he sees every day, he usually gives nickels; to others, dimes...
However, no amount of nose poking will disprove the plain fact, set forth in my original letter to you, that Coolidge ought to fly with Lindbergh. I repeat also that Roosevelt would have flown with Lindy like a shot, the day Lindbergh got home from Paris...
Furniture, tapestries, rugs, statues-these were sold at three other sessions of the auction of Judge Gary's collection. The last was by far the most spectacular; this brought the total for the entire sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer...