Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra $100 a week-failed to stick when movie publicity boomed his meagre practice after three films." Since this sentence concerns me, I hasten to make a few observations. ... In the two years, 1939 and 1938, when I devoted myself exclusively to the motion-picture industry, my annual gross incomes were $1,760.17 and $2,028.42 respectively. These sums represent the amount of money I was able to earn in this lush enterprise...
Like many another doctor, I had noticed for a number of years the gross inaccuracies and scientific fallacies which appeared with alarming regularity in medical pictures. I resolved that given the chance, I would bend every effort through the powerfully suggestive medium of pictures to present illness and its treatment in as educative and accurate a manner as possible...
...Hayes and Mr. Evans have carried into almost every scene. Their interpretation is as light as the music which Paul Bowles employs so delightfully. Outside of a few "heavy" scenes, the characters almost run on air. And even in the revels of Aguecheck and Belch, which might easily turn gross, there is the same feel of fantasy...
White House Peanut Vendor Steve Vasilakos, who for 24 years has donated a day's gross receipts to the Red Cross, became a U. S. citizen, donated two days' gross by way of celebration...
...fear, suspect, hate. Among other things it had become plain that while Germans were without question the most meticulous, thorough, shrewd, methodical fighters in the world, Britons had dug down to the marrow of each British bone and to the ganglion of each British nerve, and demonstrated that despite gross muddleheadedness and inefficiency, Britain could fight...