Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely a spectator on the side lines. Ruddy punched an opponent on the nose and a reciprocal punch from his swimming antagonist caused Ruddy's nose to bleed. . . . I ordered the swimmers out of the tank and they knew their master's voice. Like a lot of sardines they crawled to the dressing room...
...bewildered electorate he boomed: "The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. . . . Americans as a whole are feeling a lot better-a lot more cheerful than for many, many years...
...Three metal cigarette cases, one lot of Foreign Coins...
...winter at the Navy Yard at Kittery. The Blaines, aristocrats of the neighborhood, looked down on the Bragdons as closefisted grubbers; so did everyone else but the no-account Linscotts. But the Bragdons had never been whiffle-minded, and Gus was the least whiffle-minded of the lot. He went his taciturn way, refused to get religion, left the church when his brethren's intolerance got too foolish for him. He worked long hours, salted away his cash, traded shrewdly in wood lots...
When he knew his long day was almost over Gus cashed in shrewdly on his wood-lot holdings, arranged all his affairs like the solid old Yankee he was. Then he got his daughter Kate to cook him the kind of food he always liked: beans and bannock, with plenty of pepper. As his dying remark he murmured one of the family's favorite jokes...