Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the increase of prestige and financial strength came action on the long talked of new building. The lot on Plympton Street was purchased, and by 1914 plans for the building were completed...
...only scandal sheets, bound between covers, and, by no possible logical circumvention, in any better taste. It would be preferable to let the dead rest with whatever reputation they managed to carry away with them; for, according to such books, they had more than enough trouble for their lot while alive...
...Manhattan, one Hunter Wykes wrote a letter to The Sun, saying: "I wore a black derby to the Bankers' Club for luncheon, and while I did not count the hats in the hat room, I suppose there must have been a thousand. . . .Among the lot but four black derbys stood out in contrast. The white Fedora was preponderantly in evidence, the rest being soft brown...
...must be remembered that these statistics of daily sales on the Exchange, apart from being somewhat hastily compiled by newspapers from the stock tape, are defective for another reason. Only sales of 100 shares or multiples thereof are regularly put on the tape. Hence, sales of "odd lots"-that is, amounts of from 1 to 99 shares-are not included in ordinary calculations of sales on the Exchange. In recent years, individual sales in odd lots have equaled or outnumbered sales of 100 shares, while odd lot sales constitute an additional third to the published total of 100-share sales...
...several years the lament over the farmer's sad lot has been a conspicuous political asset to many Congressmen and Senators. In consequence, to state that the farmer is experiencing prosperity is, for such politicians, like depriving a she-bear of her whelps...