Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnesota is first in percentage of alumni participation in the Harvard Law School endowment campaign, and New York is the leader in the amount of money contributed, according to an analysis of alumni contributions by states which was announced yesterday at the New York headquarters of the Fund. The analysis shows that subscriptions from alumni of the School have now been received from 46 states, and from Porto Rice. Hawaii and various foreign countries...
...Treasury Department estimated that the amount of money of all kinds in the U. S. totaled $8,600,062,824 of which $4,609,304,678 was in gold coin and bullion and $2,104,396,595 in Federal Reserve notes...
...freedom, lacked money to do as much for "Pinky." But in 1860 the grandmother thought of appealing to Henry Ward Beecher, already famed as an anti-slavery speaker. Learning that "Pinky's" owner valued her at $900, Beecher staged the "auction," raised $1,100 in excess of the amount needed. One of his hearers, Authoress Rose Terry, put a ring in the collection plate. Dramatic, Dr. Beecher slipped the ring on Pinky's finger, cried: "With this ring I thee wed - to freedom!" After her freedom had been purchased, "Pinky" went to live with a Brooklyn family...
...Ontario Law. Alcoholic liquors of all kinds may be purchased in any amount. They must be purchased at government stores, in government packages. They cannot be resold (under a jail-sentence penalty). Liquor can be bought only with permits; consumed only in the consumer's residence or in hotels...
...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...