Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the more interesting characters involved are Rosette's two great danes, whom the spectator hears a lot about but never meets...
...beneath a million shares toward the week's close. The price movement in stocks was distinctly irregular, some issues holding their recent advances well under obvious short selling, while others declined. Much of the selling pressure on the stock market is believed to have been exerted by odd-lot investors, as a record volume of transactions by odd-lot houses is reported. On Tuesday, however, a sharp rally in industrial shares ensued...
Only a few months ago, at the time Italy decided to throw in her lot with France on the Ruhr problem, Mussolini strongly favored a Continental bloc composed of Italy, France, and subsequently Germany. This was when the great Premier looked upon Great Britain with some disfavor...
...unable to obtain places in boxes will then be able to arrange with those box chairmen before it is necessary for the committee to take action. Box applications are numbered as they are received up to the total that can be assigned. The positions will then be determined by lot...
...course was as productive of good as another. This is rather deceptive. Is, say a three-day concentration period, able to compare in value with a four month stick-to-it period? Or is concentration a desirable so rare that a little of it will off-set a lot of the baser stuff of persistent application? The foreshortening of an obligation of four months to a comparatively few hours is only too likely to foster carelessness and a procrastinating habit of mind that will have little opportunity in later life to concentrate on anything, except a method of letting things...