Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all due regard to your reputation for accurate reporting, I cannot accept without a certain amount of skepticism your statement, in TIME, Oct. 18, to the effect that Yankee Outfielder Myril Hoag performs his baseball chores on feet that would do credit to any 5-ft., 100-lb. toe dancer in Hollywood...
...last week Washington knew that the New Deal was suddenly feeling a new pressure, not primarily from big business but from all those who fear a business recession-a force so general as almost to amount to a pressure of circumstances. For even the left wing of the New Deal was alarmed by the possibility of a slump and Franklin Roosevelt's attitude appeared to reflect a tacit change. Likewise modified was the attitude of many a business man who has groaned because of unhealthy Federal deficits. The President last week reiterated his intention of balancing the budget...
Nobody gets very upset over the "Perfect Specimen." Trivial to an unsurpassed degree, none of the leading roles in the picture show any appreciable amount of acting ability. Edward Everett Horton, as Miss Robson's secretary, and boxer Hugh (Woo-Woo!) Herbert are amusing enough. Best line:--Miss Robeson, on being awakened by a lustily crowing cock, cries, "Dismiss the rooster...
...spots in the Widener system which it would not be hard to remedy, and more of the same kind are likely to appear. But if the Student Council keeps after the situation, and with the officials of the Library now awaking to the possibilities of making the College library amount to what its name implies, the hopes for better, swifter, and more complete service are improving every...
...Business School has found the device helpful in human experiment. Without moving outside the laboratory, the attendants are able to obtain the heart rate of an individual at the same time regulating the amount of activity. The engine is also useful in measuring human respiration...