Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew rows smoothly at a high stroke, their balance is good, and they have a lot of power. Like the Varsity they have a chance of an undefeated season. If they can best Tech again, on the basis of comparative scores they should be able to edge Princeton; and if they best Columbia they should be able to edge Yale. So everything depends on this Saturday--everything except that comparative results usually mean little. But no one could deny that the prospects are indeed rosy. By Caleb Foote...
...despite the indispensability of his office and the real opportunities of the chair which he occupies, a baby dean's lot, like the policeman's in "The Pirates of Penzance", is not always an happy one. As in minor positions in the Government, the job of administering the daily routine of the college often tends to bog down in bureaucratic entanglements. The power, and sometimes the willingness, is lacking, to cut these knots. There is a strong tendency for a minor dean to indulge in the game of passing the buck, and, instead of dealing evenly and directly with...
...Wilks: Hmph! You look a lot older than that...
Biggest scene in The Prince and the Pauper is naturally the Coronation, for which Warners used their big new Stage 22, too ft. longer than the lot's ordinary 40-ft. stages; a small army of extras, the St. Luke's Choir and six technical advisers. In this scene Tom Canty, already prayed over, sworn and anointed, is about to get the crown when Prince Edward comes scampering up Westminster Abbey's central aisle to present his claims. When Tom Canty corroborates them, the Archbishop of Canterbury agrees to crown Edward if he can tell the whereabouts...
...hear Banker Hall-the Hall of Chicago's Harris, Hall & Co.-the Bond Club last week turned out in full force. In a good-tempered reply to the Douglas broadside Banker Hall keyed his speech to the general thesis: "Always it is important not to kill a lot of fine wheat in an effort to stamp out a few weeds."As to the value of long-established banker-client relationships, Banker Hall quoted Britain's famed McMillan Report to the effect that what Old England needed was'not less but more co-operation between finance and industry...