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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Right now the House Plan seems to be getting everybody a lot of fun. The day that the News doesn't run a Communication about it is a rainy day indeed, and it is hard to find a time at the Elizabethan Club when somebody isn't saying just what he thinks on the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On With the Steamroller | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

...part of the whole situation is that now the House Plan is going to be tried out, and nothing that anybody says this year will stop things. Last Friday the inquisitor did his best to point this out and put people at case, or at least to prevent a lot of wasted effort, but to no avail, evidently. They are still harping on the House Plan and the failure of the News to represent undergraduate opinion when there wasn't any to represent. Well, it doesn't hurt anybody and it may do some good in waking the place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On With the Steamroller | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

Laurence Stallings, author (Plumes), playwright (What Price Glory?), is now a planter in Caswell County, N. C. Last , week he took his first lot of tobacco, some 400 Ibs., to Danville, Va.; sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...that story spreads, boys, I'm ruined. There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget. Competition in this business is terrible. Once my customers get the notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...occasional boy scout troop on patriotic occasions and a few torch-bearing automobiles the night before election. The Army game fills this gap in his emotional life very successfully, and after he has trailed the cadet lines down the streets and across the river he is reconciled to his lot once more. All during the past week a feeling of restlessness has been growing more and more pronounced, and most disconcertingly the Vagabond would come to himself with a start in the midst of a lecture to find that inwardly he was listening to martial music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

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