Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played on these fields in three years. Two good teams had taken turns hanging on to a series of one run advantages by combining excellent fielding and fine pitching. Harvard had played a full game with only a harmless error in the infield and without any of the gross errors of judgement which characterized much of last year's play...
...sale of books and periodicals . . ." They founded AMORC, she says, "as a device to disseminate information, lessons and instructions to others for a profit." The take, she contends, is good. According to Widow Kiimalehto, the AMORC membership is now around 2,-000,000 (which Rosicrucian officials claim is a gross exaggeration...
Meanwhile, in their corner, Screen Plays, Inc.'s impresarios, Producer Stanley Kramer and George Glass, were sitting pretty. On something like $600,000 (chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first...
...doctors get 17 shillings ($3.40) a year for each patient on their list, regardless of whether they call on him every day in the year or not at all. A doctor can have a maximum of 4,000 patients on his list, which would give him a gross income of $13,600. In a few regions, there are more doctors than necessary (e.g., one to each 1,000 patients along Britain's south coast). The result is that doctors' income there is low. Though Bevan could raise their fees, he refuses to do so in these cases because...
...question of making wrestling a major sport here has been raised before. It will probably come up again at the April meeting of the Athletic Committee, and that group will be doing the team, the student body, and the sport itself a gross injustice if it turns down the proposal once more...