Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition's radio equipment had kept the world pretty fully informed of what befell during the past four months, but MacMillan and his lieutenants did a lot of summing...
...Mexico where he is to be dean of the department of English in the University of Mexico City, Dr. L. P. Finely, takes a final shot at American education. College students are an idle lot in his opinion. They have no taste for learning and little ability to acquire it. Seventy-five per cent of them cannot speak the English language correctly, while graduate students are "boys whose parents have enough money to keep them in college until the professors are tired of looking at them." Manicured and powdered, the youth of modern college life stirs Dr. Finley more than...
...Caillaux, weary, hoarse, replied: "I see before me, a lot of men occupying prominent situations. I am so confused I hope they will conserve of me the same memories I have of them...
...comnittee of the Federation of British Industries is urging that a 20% increase in value be added to the penny. There would then be 10 pennies to the shilling and 200 to the pound; a fair start at decimals for Britishers long wedded to "crowns," "farthings," and other odd lot coins...
...estimated profits A lot...