Word: amounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royalties from the sale of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago must amount to a great deal. Can you tell me if he will be allowed to accept this money or will his stinking government keep...
Wandering Scholars. At school, students miss no meals, although they may eat plain Bratwurst or Spätzle. Plainness in food is more than made up for by the low cost of the six months abroad. The university charges only about $1,000-the amount it collects for a boarding semester at Stanford-for plane fare to Germany, board, room and tuition. Thoughtfully, Stanford officials made no provision for return flights to the U.S. Best evidence of Landgut Burg's success: the university is seriously considering a similar outpost in Florence, has in the back of its mind...
...Coming of the Messiah. There is erratic, hard-drinking General Hugh Johnson, who. when he was finally forced to resign from NRA, in his farewell speech to his staff tearfully quoted (in Italian) the lines sung by Madame Butterfly before she commits harakiri. Author Schlesinger also manages a certain amount of humor in describing the great rush of theorists to Washington, including the Agricultural Department lawyer who. on a field trip. saw his first lightning bug and cried: "Good God! What's that...
Over the past 25 years, Pusey reported, the University's total income from tuition charges has risen 350 per cent. But in the same period there has been an increase of 1200 per cent in the amount of financial aid available to students...
Perkins also proposed that returning alumni be lodged, so far as is feasible, in their undergraduate Houses. Shultz termed this "a very nice idea," but thought it would prove difficult. "Only a limited amount of space is available in the Houses," he said...