Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to see the Republican Party reorganized. ... I don't think there is any room in this country for an old conservative party. . . . Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were liberal leaders. It doesn't take long to shake off what you call conservatism. . . . There was a vast amount of reaction against the New Deal, but what were the people offered? . . . People can't eat the Constitution...
...these hopefuls, eager to seize any advantage in their Party's defeat, James A. Farley had only a horse laugh. Jovially declared the Democratic boss: "I suppose President Roosevelt will have opposition in 1936 but I don't believe it will amount to much. Who will be their candidate? They will have difficulty in finding anyone to make the sacrifice. ... I think the Republicans are through-positively through...
...imagined as a 500-page book, recorded history would fit easily into the last word, the Christian era into the last letter. How is this known? The rate at which radioactive substances decay can be experimentally determined, and hence the age of radioactive rock can be told by the amount of decay observed. In Canada there are rocks that reveal an age of 1,230,000,000 years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead. Thus the time at which Earth and the other...
...November 9 issue of the CRIMSON, there is an article which describes the construction and purpose of the new directive radio station on the tower of Jefferson Laboratory. Although the article contains a number of correct statements, it also includes some definite conclusions which are not justified by the amount of experimental information which has been obtained. Furthermore, the reporter failed to mention the valuable work performed by the American Radio Relay League, the Mount Washington Observatory, and numerous other collaborating groups. In the headlines and text my personal contribution is greatly overemphasized, without any mention of the graduate student...
Many a broker feels that retrenchment, by eliminating a large amount of direct brokerage advertising, is one good reason for the decline in security trading. Yet the New York Stock Exchange gets more free publicity than any other business institution in the land. Every big newspaper in the land devotes pages to daily stock-.market news and quotations. But the Exchange also gets more space in the Congressional Record than any other business institution. Therefore last week its Governors came to an unprecedented decision: the Stock Exchange itself would drum up business...