Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of all such maneuvers is that there are simply not enough books to go around. This is not unexpected, but in many instances there is a whole shelf full of copies of one book while there are only two or three copies of another that contains an equal amount of assigned reading. In some cases this is due to departments that won't purchase enough volumes, in others to professors who assign out-of-print editions. Lamont officials say they try, to adjust the number of copies of a book to student demand as much as possible...
...Robert Brendze, who first treated the student at the hospital, revealed that Beatty had spilled most of the iodine and would probably suffer no more than a sore throat from the amount he actually drank...
...while his hands did what they pleased. He became a vegetarian ("I don't think I could have worked so long on roast beef") and, what was more important, he found a dealer. Cooper's labors, on exhibition in a London gallery last week, inspired a certain amount of automatic writing on the part of British critics. "It may perhaps be taken as a guarantee of ... authenticity," the London Times opined, ". . . that his pictures are extraordinarily minute and precise in execution; they resemble nothing so much as patches of an old wall on which successive layers of wallpaper...
...family life of the Limmers includes lots of skiing, and an equal amount of beer drinking. Among the frequent visitors to the shop is an old friend of Peter's, Ernst Seemueller, who sports a cap with "Star Beer Brewery" on it. Ernst's home has the distinction of a pine paneled bar equipped with 72 beer steins, several Italian wine jugs, a pewter edged two litre drinking horn, and plenty of schnapps. Ernst recalls the old days in Bavaria when the children used barrel staves or the long slats from the tops of egg crates for skis...
...rest of the Advocate--and it is, unfortunately, the really literary part--is of negligible value. A poorly developed story by Aristides Stavrolakes, "Sportsmen," contains a certain amount of realistic dialogue, stemming from Hemingway, between a weak personality who owns a barbershop and a couple of sinister characters who want to but it from him as dishonestly as possible...