Word: months
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Also to the House of Representatives the President sent his budget message, asking for $3,830,445,231 to run the government next year. A separate request: $200,000 to pay the expenses of the U. S. delegation to next month's London Naval Conference...
...Klein): "The small retailer. . . . Most of them may be careless, shortsighted and therefore shortlived (commercially speaking). . . . Admittedly many of them ought not to be in business. . . . In Louisville the costly perils of careless retailing were shown in the fact that 30 grocery stores failed in that city each month and 32 new ones opened up. . . . A recent analysis of the restaurant business in Kansas City showed that of some 1,080 such establishments in 1928, 551 went out of business and almost exactly, the same number of new ones opened up. . . . If the present average turnover period in charge accounts...
...Prisons was by law a member. If he sat every working day, he would have to hear 28 cases a day. This is one of his sparetime diversions." And again: "One of these [officers] had 1,738 probation cases in his charge. If he visits them once a month, he will have to visit almost 60 a day, seven days a week...
Action no Professor Coolidge's resignation will not take place for a month it was understood from the Watch and Ward Society, the matter resting in the hands of the Society's Board of Directors...
...lectures, however, Mr. Hersey has incorporated two items which make it foolhardy, so far as personal enjoyment goes, to miss any of them. His practice of giving illustrated talks two or three times a month makes the course extremely delightful and a fair target for Vagabonders. The slide-lectures cover a multitude of topics, such as the Wessex of Hardy. The other novelty he offers is the presentation of leading actors and actresses, such as Walter Hampden or Vivian Tobin, to his class. The guests usually talk on some phase of contemporary drama...