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Word: amounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheshire Cat. Let me say that nonsegregated housing without a housing bill does not amount to anything . . . We are declining to make political capital out of a situation readymade for getting votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Fish Fry | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Caught between the demands of bird lovers and cat lovers, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson finally vetoed a bill which would have permitted the impounding of cats running around at large. Said he: "It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...test now looks simple, but Dr. Richardson, 52, has been working for five years to develop it. It is based on the long-known fact that the amount of the female hormone, estrone, in the urine increases greatly after conception. First, Dr. Richardson puts a specimen of urine in a special double-barreled test tube he invented. Then he gets rid of other hormones (progesterone derivatives), which might interfere with the test, by mixing in chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Frogs, No Rabbits | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Winthrop election was marked by an unusual amount of campaigning, with all five candidates mounting posters and electioneering vigorously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tyson Wins Winthrop Re-Vote for Council Post by 13 in Close Race | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...matter of (1) size of the glass, (2) amount of foam, and (3) percent of Scotch blood in the bartender. Right now a keg of beer yields between 190 and 220 ten cent glasses. Cronin's uses a nine-ounce glass, one of the largest around here, and settle for 190 per barrel. The Wursthaus, on the other hand, employs an eight-ounce glass, and works every barrel for well over 200 servings...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Local Bung-Pullers Foresee No Nickel Beers In Future | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

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