Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyers-heard a handful of witnesses go to the witness stand microphone to answer lengthy questioning. Chief witness of the day was William J. Proud, for 38 years superintendent of Laurel Hill Cemetery, where Henrietta Garrett and her close kin are buried. He identified pictures of tombstones on Lot No. 320, Section...
...many a banker had the long-forgotten pleasure of receiving a rising vote of confidence and appreciation. In serene sessions throughout the land the stockholders nodded approval to 1936 reports, listened respectfully to what the bankers had to say. Operating profits were up a little, security profits up a lot. Recoveries from bad assets continued to mount. Demand for business loans was increasing but interest rates were still discouragingly low. Government bonds were still by far the largest asset item. Commercial banks at the year end held no less than 60% of the total national debt. Over bulging bond portfolios...
...failed when the current went off, and thus you were just the tools of Mr. Insull or Mr. Hopson. The bigger and shinier and faster you automobile was the more apt you were to get bamped off unpleasantly. A medieval arquebus was much more decent. It was all a lot of rot--modern existence. I was insistent. I was almost a Miniver Cheevy...
...going back because I prefer American working conditions. I am getting on in years and when the weather is bad and I am feeling ill, I appreciate the privilege of staying away from my laboratory without resorting to a lot of unpleasant red tape to get official permission...
...their friends. Chekhov bought a dilapidated country house outside the city, to get away from visitors, soon found his household was as crowded as ever. It was a relief to get away occasionally for a quiet stroll in a graveyard. Chattering women gave him a special pain. "What a lot of idiots there are among ladies!" he exclaimed. "People have got so used to it that they no longer notice it." He liked such misogynisms as: "If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry." Chekhov finally married, but not till he was 41, three years before his death...