Word: totality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Application of this ratio in such a way that the combined total of cruiser plus destroyer tonnage would not exceed 550,000 for the U. S., 550,000 for Britain and 330,000 for Japan...
...October 18, 1916, Sidney Hatch ran from Milwaukee to Chicago, 95.7 miles, in 14 hr., 50 min., and 30 sec., beating the former record made by Al Corey by 3 hr., 16 min., and 30 sec. Hatch ran every step of the way, making only three stops for a total loss of 16 minutes, and finished strong, although he lost ten pounds. He averaged a mile every eight and one-half minutes. After he finished the run he took a large dish of ice-cream and a glass of lemonade and went to bed for a 24-hour sleep...
...present the financial position of the Reich in a most artificial light. . . ." Having deplored these methods of German State accountancy, Mr Gilbert proceeded to point out expenditures in the German budget where he thought there ought to have been savings. He declared: "The budget estimates for 1927-28 carry total expenditures of 9,100,000,000 marks, as compared with 7,200,000,000 marks in 1924-25 an increase of 1,900,000,000 marks. . . . "The military and naval budget expenditures rose from 458,000,000 marks four years ago to 700,000,000 marks for the current year...
...Oakmont Country Club, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Harry Cooper of British birth and Los Angeles residence had been around the links four times last week in a total of 301 strokes, causing a number of people to go home thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July...
...taxicab spokesman replied that 17,000 was only 2% of the total vehicle registration in New York City, that New Yorkers want and need cabs at all hours. The Times, without warning, waxed humorous, and said: "Mr. McAdoo may be pardoned the slight hyperbole. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the average load of a taxicab in these parts is .83 of a passenger. Private automobiles offend to a somewhat less degree, averaging 1.7 passengers and just a trace of dog -generally...