Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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quot;You know what I think of you bankers? I think you're a swell lot of guys. Some of you are afraid of your own shadow and wouldn't lend $10 on a $20 bill, and I'm looking right at. . . ." Mr. Jones stopped but eyed a fellow citizen of his native Houston. The bankers roared. "You notice I didn't say $20 gold piece," the burly Texan added. "I don't know what is ahead either but I know what is behind us. I know there's plenty of meat...
...game against Yale, Brickley kicked five goals from the field for 15 points, which is some record. The bubbear of the Hinkey lateral passing attack, with Lagore and Wilson as great threats caused a lot of midnight oil to be burned by the Harvard coaches in 1914. But by dint of scouting and devising a trick defense which worked well in its experimental phase against Princeton, Haughton surmounted that obstacle by a 36-0 score against the Elis...
...Lilly Dache. With ten minutes to spare before keeping an appointment, she tried on four hats, bought two. Said the sales-clerk who knew Mrs. Roosevelt of old: "She is one that either likes a thing or she doesn't. But she has improved in style a lot in the last few years, I'm glad...
...State of New York has also pointed out its virtues as a strength-giver. "[It] was a fight against odds," Pugilist James J. Braddock was represented as declaring of his lackpenny preparation for winning the heavyweight championship. "But when it came to milk . . . well, we gave up a lot of things but never milk. I don't think I ever could have gotten in shape without it." Other witnesses to milk's athletic potency: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Grantland Rice...
...dance-though-your-heart-be-breaking sequence), but all on a rather simple scale. Or, to put it in a nutshell, we don't find the Balinese very stimulating mentally. Go expecting beautiful Bali girls and breathtaking photography and you will not be disapponted. That's quite a lot, after...