Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...processes of manufacture tended to force down the price level. But large doses of ballyhoo and misloading accounting managed to prevent the natural decline, although production costs were falling. Only the more sensitive commodity prices reflected the results of greater industrial efficiency. Security quotations in particular were fortified by gross misrepresentation, which is only now coming to light...
...baroque Collegiate Church (Basilica), erected to supersede the chapel, was completed in 1709 at a cost of $3,000,000. This, says skeptical Terry's guidebook, "is no doubt a gross exaggeration." By last week, some $800,000 had been spent in alterations, and clerics and pilgrims were ready for the opening ceremonies of the 400th anniversary fiesta: reconsecration of the altars, high mass, a view of the tilma, its holy image and the bejewelled Sacred Golden Crown of the Virgin, quoted...
...There will be no regular Freshman team this year, but there are daily boxing classes for Freshmen interested in the sport at the Hemenway Gymnasium. Veterans from last year's team include Captain D. P. Ketcham '32, M. J. A. Adlis '32, W. P. Bailey '32, H. Gross '33, and J. J. Mellen '33. The most promising prospect from last year's Freshman team is P. W. A. Hines '34. Other candidates from last year's Freshman team are K. L. Riley '34, D. E. Peter '34, and A. B. Sullivan...
...reporters who tipped off the natives unwittingly, drank up all the beer and asked so many questions that General Fournier found it impossible to concentrate. The air of Ajaccio, the air that fed the genius of the young Napoleon, gave General Fournier an idea or two. He ordered two gross of tricolored arm bands, drew up the 200 reporters in the public square last week, gave each one a rifle and sent them, happy as schoolboys, to hunt bandits in the woods by themselves and not bother him any more...
...gigantic and glaring blunders that the mind can conjure. At one time, for example, he buys "a few airplanes" which upon closer inspection prove to be 2000 planes. His only excuse is "that the man must have been a salesman," and that he got one free by purchasing in gross. He is immediately promoted because he has cornered the airplane market and prevented the production of air pictures by rivals. This is the trend of the show. Nothing in Hollywood is left sacred. The treatment of playwrights, whom they ship in from New York by the carlond...