Word: lot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share day is to Manhattan's Stock Exchange, so is a 600-lot day to Manhattan's Cocoa Exchange-drab, brick, Water St. trading centre that fixes the price of the world's cocoa. No small amount is 600 lots, however, as one lot equals 30,000 pounds and 600 lots have a value of close to two million dollars. Last week, Cocoa Exchange transactions reached a day's high of 627 lots, breaking a record of three years' standing. A seat on the Cocoa Exchange was sold for $6,000, a rapid advance over...
...think we might put personality first. When a lot of men come to sell you something you will be much more likely to buy it from the fellow you look on as a friend. Apart from learning local conditions, try to learn the language, because you will sell the thing better in that way. If the 'boss' of the firm can go out and do business, he will sell his goods very much better than by leaving it to other people...
...Russia, Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky and in Italy Minister of Education Giuseppe Belluzzo are well-known personages. In France, the Minister of Public Instruction was once famed, grizzled Edouard Herriot; is now M. Pierre Marnaud. In the U. S. the lot of the Commissioner of Education is subordinate, obscure. Reason: the U. S. Education Commissioner is essentially only an adviser. His official duties are to "collect statistics and general information showing the conditions and progress of education in the U. S. and all foreign countries; to advise State, county and local school officers as to the administra tion...
Realist: I defy you to prove it. A fellow likes a girl for her own sake and not for a lot of glad rags...
...princes have no part or lot in such wild political theories," counseled the Maharaja of Alwar...