Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankers who put in two of their own co-receivers. They promptly sued Founder Backus for $7,000,000. That was too much for Founder Backus. Last week in Minneapolis he launched a mighty campaign for a comeback. He asked the court to dismiss the receivers, charging them with gross mismanagement, inefficiency and squandering some $12, 000,000 of Minnesota & Ontario's assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits...
...next July the deficit would be $3,000,000,000, and the gross public debt would be lifted to within $1,000,000,000 of its 1919 all-time high...
...total of $7056 gross sales was reported this year. From this sum, after paying off the overhead, the employment office gave salaries of $4 per week to each stand worker and $6 per week to the captain of each stand. In addition to these salaries, $633 was given the workers in bonuses and prizes...
...fiercely laid bare in these pages are by no means the ordinary. A staid couple has committed a murder, and lived on to forget it, remaining quite a pleasant pair. One girl has lived in incest, and ends with suicide. A man loses wife and place because of gross and public cowardice. It is a tribute to the skill of the author that all these themes, so bloody and thundery when related in skeleton, impress the reader of the book as the most natural and commonplace. This fact is perhaps the most convincing proof that Maugham has succeeded in portraying...
...effected. He can call attention to the tremendous load carried by the H.A.A. in the form of an expensive plant and a parasitic physical education program. He can show how other colleges have curtailed their athletic programs while at the same time allowing what according to Harvard standards seem gross extravagances...