Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Well, now we're down to the nuts and raiains", President Lincoln used to remark, as he finished his examination each day of the recent telegrams from the Southern battle-front and turned to the old dispatches, thumbed over again and again. The cryptic statement came as the climax of...
"The enormous expenditures required to carry on the war have brought about a complete change in the financial affairs of the country. Our expenditures are now so large that the government must raise practically all of its revenue through the system of direct taxation. Even before the war, the increase...
"The total estimated requirements for the next fiscal year, excluding the money necessary for the Railroad Administration, is $5,250,000,000, or an average of $47 for every person in the United States. This enormous sum will be decreased by Congress to at least $4,000,000,000.
During the past year he has been stationed at the University, acting as instructor in Material and Small Arms Firing and as supply officer, a position demanding an enormous amount of work because of the great quantity of government property that has been assigned to the University during the past...
Speaking of campaign funds, it is possible that the enormous sums raised for the furtherance of Presidential candidacies have been swelled by contributions from alumni of our own University. It is reasonable to assume that in many cases such contributions have been greater than those which the aforementioned political "angels...