Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their forefeet up the incline into the soft, warm, apron-pocket pouch. The mother sits quietly on her haunches, takes no part in the affair. It is likely that many of the young, with little but instinct to guide them, miss the mother's pouch entirely. The number found there is al most always less than the number of embryos in the uterus shortly before birth...
Then the radio went on the air and the cinemusical on the screen. Tastes changed, repetition cloyed, purses flattened. Gradually the number of musicomedies on Broadway dwindled. Last year there were...
...Considered raising the limit on insured bank deposits. To the 13,719 U. S. banks now insured (up to $5,000 per account) by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Chairman Leo Crowley sent a letter asking for statistics on the number of their accounts over $5,000 in size. Recalling that Chairman Henry Steagall of the House Banking Committee had advocated increased coverage, Chairman Crowley said FDIC was willing to raise the ante if the additional risk were "very small." Previous estimates showed that about 95% of U. S. deposits were covered by the present limit. But a new estimate...
Coach Skip Stahley sent his Freshman football aspirants through two long "fundamental" workouts Saturday morning and afternoon, and hard drills again booked for today. Over 70 candidates have signed up, but the number is expected to hit close to the century mark this week...
...Medical School in Boston anticipates the arrival of 516 students this term, four more than last year. Because there are no set terms for graduate medical students, it is impossible to compute their number, although over the space of a year they number several hundreds...