Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sounds too preposterous to be true, but Marsh Wells says that he has movies proving everything he says. There go those movies again. Wonder if he made the discovery while the play was happening or after he saw the films. Anyway, movies show a lot of things. For instance, the Yale line was offside on Struck's failure to convert a point after touchdown in the 1936 Yale game lost by Harvard 14-13. How about playing both games over...
...right on the spot, Vag made a noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...
...religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
Unlike most Chilean landowners, who have controlled Chile for decades, he is bent on improving the lot of the country's underpaid, overworked rotos. To do this he lined up his Radicals with the Socialists, Radical Socialists and Communists, took the field against the landlordly Rightists. Infuriated with Rightist President Arturo Alessandri for suppressing their Putsch last September, 15,000 Nacistas (Nazis) on the eve of the election joined the Popular Front's political hodgepodge, helped Lawyer Aguirre win by a slim 3,000 majority...
...London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole lot of them into an ordinary aeroplane. It would be a tumultuous load, but if you could contrive a crash for it the alleviation of human trouble would be disproportionately vast...