Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of murder, only to find both man and wife members of a harsh crowd of criminals. Eventually he escapes from his dilemma by sending the wife to jail for five years and planning to have the sentence quickly cut down. Such proceedings call for no small amount of insight and ingenuity to make them credible. A good deal has been supplied, but not enough. The play works itself up to a pitch of considerable excitement and then subsides, fizzling feebly. Robert Ames, who sometimes acts in the movies, availed himself ably of the opportunities of the leading part...
...quack-advertisements. Presumably, enough whiskey continues available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac-a useless and fake dope against alcoholism, declares the American Medical Association...
...Bechtel Prize, given by E. DeT. Bechtel '03, will be offered this year for the best thesis on some subject connected with the philosophy of William James. The amount of the prize...
...undergraduate at Harvard is becoming also, and primarily, a student, may be drawn from the serious decline this year in the number of men who have reported for social service at the Phillips Brooks House. Descending from a peak of over four hundred in 1921 to half that amount last year, the number dropped this fall, according to Mr. McTurnan, the social service secretary, to 160 men. Despite all that has been done to interest students in work that is said to pay richly in human experience, the thirty-five settlement houses in Boston and Cambridge which depend...
...cause of the bad conditions according to the report of the survey is the great amount of dust created in cutting down the granite blocks. The workmen inhale the granite dust, and within a few years the quantity of this foreign material in the lungs is sufficient to cause a complication known as silicosis, which predisposes the afflicted individuals to tuberculosis...