Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorable, resents what he naturally construes as a slur on his good name. Though he will not lie, he has not yet learned that in belonging to a suspected class he himself is not necessarily suspected; that even if he is suspected he is submitting to the common lot of all who move in the limelight; and that not looking for insults--perhaps not seeing them--is part of the discipline of life. Eventually the questionnaire based on universal distrust will defeat its won end. If the College Office should treat every student as a suspect, it would stimulate...
...boxes for the dance will be determined by lot. For this selection groups of 6 or 12 couples should elect their respective chairmen, and apply in writing to the committee at its office in Claverly 9, before February 15. All applications must be typewritten, and should contain the names of the members and their guests, arranged in alphabetical order, with the chairman's name heading the list...
...spite of low salary and non-union hours, "the intellegensia as is" seems contented with its lot. Philosophers have always proclaimed the joys of "thought for thought's sake", and have extended a general invitation to all who cared to listen. The fact that few have heeded has bothered them not at all, up to the present. But now a critic, exclaiming that the teaching profession is in danger of falling into the hands of women, a possibility decried by all educational experts, sets before men the arguments to induce them to enter it: the interest offered by contact with...
...delegation of unemployed is by no means an indication that they are down and out or that they have reached the starvation stage of bad times. Probably a good many of them, willing and anxious to secure work, are seriously distressed by England's overpopulation, but the remaining lot of professional benchwarmers have never before experienced such prosperity...
...November there were 754,000,000,000 marks in circulation, and by inaugurating night shifts in the paper mills, 110,300,000,000 more marks were added in six days to the general total. It appears, from all indications that the German people will have a lot of spending money for Christmas if the paper trade continues to make its mark...