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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took an awful lot of negotiating but everything has turned out fine. "Copey" is going to speak to the Freshmen again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "COPEY" CONSENTS TO SPEAK AFTER LONG NEGOTIATIONS | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

...Economically you are a lot of children," he declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Jobless Invasion | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...inside picture of a man who gets $100,000 a year," exploded Montgomery Ward's President Sewell Avery last week at the company's annual meeting. "You shareholders turn over to me 100,000 cold dollars, which in your language is a hell of a lot. The income tax reduced it by about $70,000. If I were to save all that is left and the inevitable should come, the inheritance tax would be applied and I would leave my heirs an estate of something over $12,000. "Now, damn you, am I getting too much?" "But," protested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: $ 100,000 Picture | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...handled in an informal undisciplined fashion and the initiative of the student is important if he is to benefit from this valuable and essential part of the work. In general, the field may be rated as fairly easy, with the reservation that an interested student can do a lot of hard work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1936 | See Source »

...squares"-connecting dots on a piece of paper with straight lines to form boxes. She recently beat Oscar Olsen, a member of the Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps rabbits and a flock of bantam chickens. The chickens operate with punctuality. Each night Shirley takes home an egg to eat for breakfast. In addition to satisfying constant requests for her own autograph, she collects those of other celebrities. Her contacts have enabled her to assemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peewee's Progress | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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