Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally inane is the suggestion that Congress in its next session limit the amount of our exports to a peacetime average. This meets every moral requirement, of course, but will do little to keep America out of war. If the war spreads to Europe and blockades are established, there is as much risk in shipping a barrel of oil or a bale of cotton as there would be in a whole shipload of the commodities. This country wants a program of strict and workable neutrality in which all exports whatsoever to a country at war shall be forbidden...
...Barrere still wears his old-fashioned beard, the sharp mustachios now flecked with grey. And his wit is still equal to any amount of teasing. Of his platinum flute, he says: "I don't play it to show that I have a bank balance or that Depression is over." About his whiskers: ''Why should people make fun of me any more than of Charles Evans Hughes. . . . Think of Sousa or the Smith Brothers. . . . While other artists waste a valuable part of each day playing with a razor or being mutilated by their favorite barber, I am having...
...this decrease was brought about by reducing the guarantees paid to visiting teams to $154,000. Further gains were registered in football. Football receipts increased $26,000 to the amount of $291,500, while expenses in this field were $76,000, an increase of only...
Last year the committee received $49,850.91 out of the unconditional Rockefeller grant. In addition $19,812.92. was gathered from outside sources, and that amount was doubled by the conditional grant, making a total of nearly $90,000. The expense last year amounted to about $80,000. $59,000 went directly to research work, while the rest went for publications, upkeep of the laboratory, and administration...
...Despite depression conditions the trustees of Princeton last commencement announced a program of development calling for a considerable amount of new funds. It is encouraging to us to learn that Harvard has not hesitated to appraise her needs and place them before the public in these adverse times. The Anniversary Fund presents a program worthy of the great university which is soon to celebrate its 300th birthday. We wish every success...