Word: lots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year he barely tipped the scales at a hundred and seventy pounds, if that, while this year he weighs over a hundred and eighty pounds. The catch is that he gained the weight comparatively suddenly after an attack of grippe last winter. The result was that he lost a lot of power and had a tough time getting back into form. However, right now he has about the smoothest form on the second sight and is one of the strongest men in the boat...
...Johns and Lupe Lupien are going to have a lot to say about who walks off with the batting championship (Charles H. Blair Bat Competition), and chances are pretty good that one of them will keep the title in Cambridge. Lupien was the winner last year with a .475 mark in the 12 League games. At the present time, both Johns and Lupien are right up among the pace-setters with .429 and .381 respectively for the six tilts they have played in. STANDING OF THE TEAMS W L Pet. Harvard 5 1 .833 Dartmouth 4 1 .800 Cornell...
...three dealers* who do 97% of the New York Stock Exchange odd-lot business bought 140,000,000 odd-lot shares, sold 156,000,000. In 1938 they bought 49,000,000, sold 50,000,000-16.1% of the round-lot volume...
Nine miles from the heart of Manhattan, on what was once a Flushing (L. I.) dump, the biggest world's fair in history opens this week. Whether cynics believe it or not, New York's $156,905,000 show is not "just another fair" but "a lot more fair." It outdoes Chicago's $47,000,000 Century of Progress Exposition in showmanship, imagination and spectacle. It completely dwarfs Chicago's in size: with 200 buildings on 1,2164 acres-on which there are 62 miles of roads and paths, 10,000 trees, one good-sized lake...
...Grover Whalen has lost his leanness, but remains in top physical trim. He diets, neither drinks nor smokes, rides a lot. He has a country place at Roslyn, L. I., a town house at 48 Washington Mews-an alley off Fifth Avenue near Washington Square where Manhattan rich used to stable their horses and now like to live themselves...