Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regrets. I'm still as good, if not a damn sight better, than a lot of men with both legs...
...science of life. Two matrons both bursting with parent-teacher projects and the promotion of culture, walked up to the tree of descent. The younger of the two studied it intently for all of fifteen seconds, and then announced authoritatively. "The circulatory system of the frog." There were a lot of tangled lines, so the elderly lady nodded. And the biologist nodded...
Into the committee room marched a clownish young man named William N. McNair, a Democrat but no New Dealer, who loudly announced: "Well. I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I've come down to discuss the tax bill as it affects our city. You've taken a lot of money out of Pittsburgh. This bill has a new name, but it means that more money is coming to Washington from Pittsburgh than came before. . . . You already take $100,000,000 a year from our city. If you pass this law, a lot more money will come to Washington...
...hook Alvan Simonds publishes his own business forecast, Looking Ahead, has looked ahead to predict the Depression, the crash of Florida real estate, the U. S. abandonment of the gold standard. He personally considers his fellow-capitalists "a very stupid lot." When the U. S. entered the War, he was 40. He offered himself to the Government as purchasing agent for steel helmets and body armor, became a Captain of the Army's Ordnance Department...
...squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps, one was captured, one run to death by hounds while she was still a cub. That left only one, the strongest and canniest of the lot. Through a long round of seasons he added to his foxy lore, while around him the other creatures of the woods added to theirs also, or died...