Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superstitious, however, would not have a happy lot; they would find little relief from constant anxiety. Imagine the thirteenth day of all thirteen months landing on Friday. Then again, this new calendar may serve as a valuable antidote: if those who now entertain grave apprehensions regarding the number thirteen are still able to enjoy life under the proposed system, the time is at hand when two-dollar bills will no longer be scoffed at, and one match will suffice to light three cigarettes...
When cabled to Berlin, these guarded words were featured by the press, along with a report just issued by Commercial Attache of the U. S. Embassy F. W. Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
Brisk and dapper in his striped suit, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes paused a moment deep in thought, as the New York train pulled in at Northampton, Mass., station. Had he remembered to pack: 1) his purple socks? 2) his lemon-yellow shoes? 3) elegant ties, in hues and number sufficient? And had he packed too, in his mind, plenty of his bright, daring, fetching, original phrases, enough to give the solemn old boys a jolt...
...resources were $838,129,668. Last week deposits alone were $842,358,215. Capital of $40,000,000, surplus of $50,000,000, undivided profits of $13,377,018 and other items (notably $96,819,425 in trade acceptances) made up the $1,052,211,198. Fewer than that number of dollars have been the number of minutes elapsed since Jesus was born or modern time calculated...
...John Pierpont Morgan, head of the house; setting a precedent, in the cases of Davison and Lamont, for sons-of-partners to become partners; Thomas Newhall and Edward Hopkinson, partners in the affiliated Drexel & Co. (Philadelphia), to be both Drexel-partners and Morgan-partners; bringing the total number of partners...