Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "in any sort of weather, she works on all the while, until she's raked together, a tidy little pile."*Because her father liked to employ titled Europeans as footmen and office boys, Alice had acquired a rather low opinion of continental coronets ("You bid the right amount-you own a duke or count...
...owns a big piece of Canada. According to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, U.S. citizens have invested more than $5 billion north of the border. Better than half of that amount-an estimated $2.7 billion-is in the U.S.-controlled companies, subsidiaries and branches that make up 37% of the investment in Canadian industry...
...Natural History of Mosquitoes, by Dr. Marston Bates (Macmillan; $5). Mosquitoes punch holes in man; they pester him, keep him awake, infect him with deadly diseases. So well-financed scientists, determined to deal with mosquitoes, have studied them intensively for more than half a century, accumulating a vast amount of information. But, as Dr. Bates points out, they have hardly begun to find out how even the best-known species go about their business...
...will suffer from the lack of incentive in a second Council drive compared to the special appeal that was successful for the World Student Service Fund and the displaced persons. But it is hoped that allowing the student to divide his contribution during the year will increase the total amount...
...When last I painted him he still had:-at least for me-a certain amount of uncouthness of the flesh about him, of the brazen and sardonic as well as the elegant ironic. This time I was painting a man who had passed through a white fire, who is specifically anointed...