Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lot or rowing critics like to attribute the success of the Varsity boat to the outstanding stroking of Spike Chace who has handled the number eight position for four full years at College. Tom Bolles thinks the six-foot-four, 194-pound pacer is one of the finest oarsmen in the country, probably the best that Harvard has ever had. In every race this year it was Chace who kept the bladesmen at the cool 32 beat which may prove a dilemma to Captain Johson's confident Blue outfit...
...Stevens at number seven seat has come up from last year's Freshman eight and Middlesex combinations. One of the smoothest blades in the boat, the 20-year-old Sophomore is an efficient pace setter for the starboard side with a keen sense of timing and a lot of power behind his strokes. Doug Erickson, a Senior, at number six, has had long years of rowing experience and is a conscientious, dependable man behind Chace...
Thus it was that when Iowa's votes were counted, it seemed to matter little that a lot of other candidates were nominated for a lot of other offices; that former Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson beat Representative Lloyd Thurston for the Republican nomination for Senator. Looming with a significance precisely equal to what others of other States might read into it was the Democratic Senatorial result: Gillette over Wearift by about 2-to-1. Three other Democratic candidates polled negligible votes...
...noises which are not unpleasing but remain unintelligible because she never lets articulation interfere with her famed pout. From time to time, it appears that Robert Young, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will be permitted to get the girl, thus beating out his rival, Don Ameche, on his home lot. This would, however, constitute a serious breach of cinema convention and does not occur. Josette further manifests its veneration for tradition in nothing more clearly than its plot, which is one of mistaken identity: two brothers trying to save their father from the clutches of a cigaret girl, encountering...
...William Martin Jr. drew up a "round table" of Exchange and SEC members to discuss: i) problems of floor administration such as the question of segregation of broker and dealer activities; 2) increasing the amount of bond trading on the floor; 3) commission rate revision; 4) development of odd-lot trading; 5) creation of a depository for customers' securities. These are Chairman Douglas' "five favorite ideas...