Word: gross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This year," read a foreword in the program book, "owing to increased expenses the deficit is likely to be $85,000, and we ask all those who are anxious to see these concerts continue to subscribe towards the deficit." Figures showed the operating expenses increased by $32,696; the gross income $717,886; the gross expenditure...
...less vehement are now able to make themselves heard. One such faultfinder is Dr. W. Armistead Gills, U. S. N. retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...
...that the problem lies in the students' race for graduation units, when that is an extremely minor issue? Why should a child, who would rather be playing ball than attending class, be faced with the serious problem of selecting his vocation or field of concentration? The proposition is sufficiently gross in his riper years. It would be well for the reformers to save the time of creating new answers to an old question by repeating this time-worn solution--raise the standards of the teachers in order to elevate the pupils...
...team outweighs the visitors. The figures for the line give an average of 187 pounds for the Harvard forward wall and 178 for the Vermont bulwark. The advantage in the backfield is by a margin of 174 to 161, while the average team weights are 182 and 172. The gross weight of the Harvard team is one ton on the hoof; the Vermonters aggregate is 110 pounds less
...Each cat will average twelve kittens a year. The skins will sell for from ten cents for the white ones to 75¢ for the pure black. We will have about twelve million skins to sell at an average of 30¢ apiece, making our revenue about $10,000 per day, gross...