Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced," he said, "that the schools must sacrifice a certain amount of the ground now covered and devote more time to the teaching of note-taking, the handling of lecture material and long-range reading assignments. The students are not going to lie down on the job when they realize what the price may be: failure to get into college...
Owing to the large amount of interest that has been shown in its work thus far, the University's "Undergraduate Faculty" plan, under which fifty Boston boys have been working all fall with Harvard students as individual instructors, will be expanded after the midyear examinations to include twenty-five more high school graduates...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull, it was intended to be an unmistakable warning aimed squarely at the totalitarian States of Europe. Chief critic of the original version was Argentina. Always a strong advocate of solidarity, Argentina, dependent upon German and Italian purchases for a sizable amount of her trade, objected to such an outspoken attack on her totalitarian customers. Mr. Hull, unwilling to compromise President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by insisting that the U. S. have its way, allowed Argentina to substitute a pact which specified no particular kind of "foreign intervention." Then Brazil, traditional South American rival...
...Schacht had any hopes that Britain would call off her trade war with Germany, he must have been disap pointed when the House of Commons unanimously advanced through its second reading a new Export Credits Bill, which raises from $250,000,000 to $375,000,000 the amount of obligations the Government can incur in "insuring foreign trade" and provides a special $50,000,000 "fighting fund" for subsidizing trade "valuable to Britain but not justifiable as sound commercial risks...
...games won, seven lost, 145 strikeouts, an earned-run average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs last week-gave almost the equivalent of $100,000 for the baseball find of the year...