Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace will give about one-third of the lectures. Section meetings will be held occasionally, but it is not yet decided how often. Economics 4 has held meetings once in every ten days, and it is probable that this policy will be continued. The reading will be comparable in amount to that of Economics 4, but it will be changed somewhat to make it more interesting and pertinent to current problems...
Does not this scheme amount, in the last analysis, to a suggestion that examinations as such be scrapped? The English examination, although it requires a certain amount of preparation, demands, above all, a natural ability, parallel in many ways to that required by the scholastic aptitude test. Why have any examinations at all, this being the case, outside of the aptitude test? The answer is that there is another quality beside inherent aptitude that most colleges (even the progressive ones;) desire of their applicants: that is, through preparation. Reactionary though it may sound in this day of experimentation, the ability...
...These dykes of ours were many of them 140 feet broad at the base and 30 feet broad at the top and they were 30 to 50 feet high. . . . At one time we had 1,400,000 of people working on the main river dykes. The amount of dirt used would put a dyke around the earth at the equator two metres thick and two metres high...
...cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material out the studio window, retaining only three Herbert songs. What remains is a queer blend of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Laurel & Hardy...
...always they made good ? until last April. Then one day Baiata invited Van Derck to drop by the Barry saloon for a friendly beer. Barry & Baiata explained that the saloon had just been redecorated and $172 was due the contractor. Would Van Derck honor a check for that amount until the brewery, as was customary, reimbursed them for the redecorating? Van Derck, to oblige, doctored Ledger...