Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here boy! Sit over there!" One of the Negroes lost no time explaining that his boss had recently shot himself while hunting, urgently needed him back home to run things. Two others guessed they were past the legal age limit of 65 for jurymen. One by one, the dusky dozen who would no more have dreamed of sitting on a jury with the "white captains" than they would of walking up and slapping the devil in the face, escaped from the courthouse by their own devices or were eliminated by the prosecution...
...vast learning and unquenchable enthusiasm of James Henry Breasted built up the greatest archeological empire in the Near East, with a dozen armies of diggers at work all around the "Fertile Crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Nile Valley. So able was he in infecting other men with his passion that for Breasted and the University of Chicago John D. Rockefeller Jr. founded the Oriental Institute with an endowment of some $13,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). From that ornate building which houses one of the 40-ton stone bulls of Sargon II, the rosy, white-haired little...
...bottle or, as the bottle man always calls it, the container division of the glass business, is not so concentrated as the flat glass division, although a half dozen companies account for about 80% of the business. In 1935 the U. S. used some 5,300,000,000 bottles compared to about 10,000,000,000 cans. Biggest bottle company is Toledo's Owens-Illinois which last autumn made itself even bigger by acquiring Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co., a tumbler-maker not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford. Owens-Illinois makes some two-thirds...
Just before sailing for Europe last autumn he got an order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...
...medical men officially appertaining to the Royal Family, a half dozen of the more prominent were in attendance, but George V ordered hastily summoned from Buckingham Palace his favorite chef, designating his adept maker of strengthening broths and gruels as ''that fellow who saved my life...