Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morning on the Gold Coast dawned on empty streets, but pursuit of the busy towing car would have revealed a lot overflowing with cars of every description. The outraged owner, apprised of his bereavement, instituted a frantic search and finally located his missing car. It was at once apparent that the guardians of the law had shared the joke with the garage in whose lot the cars were stored, for a fee of eight dollars was exacted before the car could be moved from durance vile...
Lampy's not a young face about the yard, but he might be a lot more cheerful to welcome us; it's disappointing...
...learn the theory of photography and to put it into practice is the lot of the photographic candidates. Assigned to take pictures of people and activities with cameras furnished by the department, they are then taught to develop, print, and enlarge them. Besides gaining a knowledge of photography, a pleasant pastime in itself, the candidates are, through their work, kept in touch with all the phases of life in the University...
...know what it is all about,' said one. So far as I can see, I am just repeating the course in elementary English Composition which I thought I got through with in preparatory school. It bores me sick and wastes a lot of good time that I might be putting into something useful...
Members of the First Baptist Church, especially the men, began to be proud of him. He knew a lot. His sermons were not merely repetitions of abstract nouns and pious adjectives. When he preached, he set his verbs to work, pulling facts, incidents, aphorisms, from Classical History, Renaissance, Art, Modern Business...