Word: lot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maximum height for buildings in Boston was 125 feet above the street. Three years ago this was changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...
...diplomatist! ... As I know my own business best, I am going to try and do it in my own way. . . . Nobody needs to explain to me how to get along with the English! I have met a lot of unsolicited advice about that, but I resent advice about how to get along with the English. ... I have got something to say! What we want is a pact of complete friendship and trust [between Britain and the U. S.]. That is what I am trying to bring about...
...greater proportion of the prisoners seem to have become accustomed to their lot. Most of them, especially those convicted of capital crimes, are carefree and gay. . . . Their treatment by the guards, mostly trusted prisoners, is humane. Corporal punishment has long since been abolished by the Governor of the island...
...lot of things happened in South American aviation last week (see Map, p. 30): ¶ Pan-American Airways (U. S.) extended U. S. air mail service down the west coast from Mollendo, Peru, to Santiago, Chile, thus completing the longest U. S. air mail route?Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to Santiago, 3,900 mi. Scheduled travel time from New York to Santiago is 8 days, against 21 days by boat. Postage per half-ounce is 70¢ from any point...
...good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife's dumb agony, over the pair's never-mentioned love. Philosopher Liliom: "Nobody's right?but they all think they are. A lot they know...