Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of Richard Halliburton, world adventurer and noted author of the "Royal Road to Romance" and numerous other books, college students as a whole are a much better lot than those of his day at Princeton...
...lease was contracted with the company which operated the Keith's Memorial, and the vaudeville continued under Harvard walls. When the company decided that the theatre was becoming obsolete, Harvard agreed to its rebuilding, and bought a small parcel of land from the city of Boston to complete the lot and make the new theatre possible. In Pittsburg is another theatre from the estate of Keith; according to the residents of Pittsburg, this used to be a burlesque, but was recently converted into a motion picture house...
...swirling snowstorm, a number of cinema folk stepped off a train one day last week in Callander. Ont. to begin location work on a picture involving Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe and the five smallest daughters of Oliva and Elzire Dionne. From the Twentieth Century-Fox lot in Hollywood Producer Darryl Zanuck had sent 22 technicians and cameramen, Director Henry King, Actor Jean Hersholt, Actress Dorothy Peterson, Writers Sonya Levien and Charles Blake...
Through the psychiatric section of Manhattan's vast Bellevue Hospital each year pass more than 17,000 patients. Through Bellevue's mental hygiene clinic each year pass another 3,000 mental suspects. Of the lot 6,500 are committed to permanent insane asylums or other institutions. Joining this yearly flotsam of mentally and emotionally deranged humanity are the 5,000 who drift through the psychiatric wards of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn...
...flaws in the student's method of preparing a speech and in the technique of his delivery, a man is enabled in the short space of half a year, if not to make a perfect public speaker of himself, at least to rise above the mediocrity which is the lot of most men who have occasion to speak before an audience...