Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...application forwarded by Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "For many years this Embassy has had the privilege of presenting between 20 and 30 American ladies each year, and the Court is still disposed to receive as many American ladies as in the past," wrote Ambassador Kennedy. "The number of American ladies presented, however, has on the average been twice as great as the number of ladies presented by all other diplomatic missions put together. . . . I cannot see that it serves any useful purpose for either one of the two countries and, in my view, the practice should cease." Therefore...
...salty, widely-read autobiography,* is equally famed in Kenosha for her knitting. Clicking her knitting needles faster & faster, Mrs. Bradford marshaled her troops. When Legionnaires got 275 high-school students to sign a petition asking for R. O. T. C., Mrs. Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment of Kenosha's labor leaders, the Legionnaires quoted A. F. of L.'s William Green in favor of R. O. T. C. Labormen immediately made wires to Washington hum. Next day William...
...average senior at Manhattan's Columbia college is a strapping fellow old enough to vote. Last month he was asked to vote on a great number of pertinent and nonsensical questions. By last week it was clear that the average Columbia senior expects to be making $5,000 a year five years after graduation. But if by some chance he should be cast away on some desert island, the companion he would choose would be golden blonde Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll. The scholarly reason: her ability to speak French...
...circle's circumference to its diameter-pi-is usually given in schoolbooks as "approximately" 3.1416 or 3.14159. As a decimal it can never be expressed exactly, but the decimal value has been carried out by patient mathematicians to 707 digits. At the Paris Fair last year this huge number was written, for the edification of fairgoers, round & round in a spiral on the inside wall of a circular room...
...certain of his actions had been wrong . . . that he felt that a public confession was due from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental or moral responsibility or have chosen the coward's course of flight from the country or from life. . . . Never once has he faltered...