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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine for driving a truck without a license. Said Hero Untiedt: "Just because people once said I was a hero doesn't make me any better than the next fellow. I know I should have had a license but I've had a lot of trouble making ends meet and I couldn't spare the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rescuer Rescued | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Cried she: "I've got a lot of new axes -about a dozen of them-and I'm not going to quit until every machine is out of the city." In Alton's Methodist Church, lay men and churchmen held a mass meeting to raise funds for her defense. Oddly, none mentioned the real reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ax Woman | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...other way around. Let him own the business and let me run it for him for five years at a salary equal to what I'd be paying in taxes. Just five years. That would be $150,000-and I'd sell the business for a whole lot less right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Weary Hoosiers | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

That incident marked the beginning of the band's rise to recognition. "Breaks count a lot in this game," Webb put it. "Some of the best bands going are ones that you never hear about, just because they haven't had the breaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Swing Here to Stay,' Bandleader Webb And Ella Fitzgerald, Vocalist, Agree | 2/23/1938 | See Source »

Lastly, on Tuesday next, Harvard men in the middlewest will be able to see President Conant. And, just as important, President Conant will be able to see a lot of Harvard men he might otherwise not encounter, and Harvard itself will be the beneficiary of any new ideas there developed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTACT IN CINCINNATI | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

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