Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...ordinary layman," said the Honorable Justice, leaning back in his chair, "has little conception of the repulsive amount of false evidence that is given in court. Complaint is sometimes made of the length of legal proceedings. If perjury could be stopped the length of the trials would, in the large majority of cases, be incredibly short...
...dyne is that amount of force which in one second will give one gram a velocity of one centimetre...
...inherited tendencies play a predominant part. . . . Heredity does play a role of paramount importance in making the criminal; certainly a far greater role than many are prepared to admit." But he thinks "environmental influences are of particular importance for a criminal because his very nature includes a far greater amount of suggestibility than the average man. In this way he often becomes a helpless victim of any environment in which he happens to find himself...
...companies will be $18,900,000,000 at the end of the year, said Walton Lee Crocker, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston. This will be a gain of $1,418,000,000 over last year, a 100% gain over 1923. Real estate mortgage investments amount to 40.3% of the total; stocks & bonds to 37.6%, foreign and U. S. government and municipal bonds to 7%.-Railroad securities will constitute 17% of holdings, against 35% in 1906. Public utility holdings will be up 16.2% for this year, against a gain of 9.4% last year, will...
There is a large amount of reading, all of which, except for some excerpts from the writings of American statesmen and politicians, is heavy and very slow. However, the lectures cover almost all the material that is in the reading, so with good lecture notes a student can pass the course...