Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranch hand (Robert Young), misses his heart with her first try. Happily pursuing him out on the range, Maisie is resourcefully wrangling her man with a healthy woman's zest when into the picture pops an incompatible couple from the East, laden with a love triangle and a lot of other well-worn cinema luggage. What goes on thenceforth is not in Maisie's line...
...limited to projects noncompetitive with private enterprise. That made Secretary Ickes yelp, because it ruled out a lot of power projects...
...present-day Soviet Russia, young mouths have a lot to say. Recently 24 students of the Timiryazeff Agriculture Academy in Moscow got hot under their proletarian collars, wrote a steaming letter to the Commissariat of Agriculture's official journal, which published the letter last week, under the headline: "Chase Formal Genetics from the Universities!" Charles Darwin was okay, the students said in effect, but Mendel and Morgan were way off the party line, if not downright counterrevolutionary. To capitalist hell with the Mendelian...
Last week Moe Annenberg went fishing in the Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...
Since the World War, European connections had lost a lot of their value as the capital of the financial world moved to the U. S. There was a time when Speyer & Co. could raise $50,000,000 by cable overnight without calling on a single U. S. bank. That was long years after old Philip Speyer had sold millions of dollars worth of U. S. securities abroad to finance the Civil War, made a handsome profit for the house...