Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same sentence you state that if same amount had been in savings bank over same interim at 3¼%, it would grow to $1,417. Honest, boys, it wouldn't. The twelve-year-old volunteers that $1,000 at 3½% compounded quarterly for ten years would hit $1,417. Maybe that's what you meant...
...cross planted on its southern tip -where St. Paul is said to have planted one 2,000 years ago. And from a thousand ancient balconies he appealed skillfully to the age-old Sicilian conviction that "foreigners"-whether Saracen, Norman or mainland Italian-have only one interest in Sicily: the amount of plunder they can take out of it. "They have called me a Trojan horse," croaked Milazzo in a campaign-frazzled voice. "But I am not that. I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal. I am an anti-Communist leading only a rebellion against the injustices...
What will follow, they ask, if the charges differ by an infinitesimal amount, too small to measure with today's best laboratory instruments? One result, they answer, will be the expansion of the universe. If the difference is only two parts in 1 billion billion, the galaxies will be forced to flee from one another...
Explains Dance Director Rulon Stanfield, a Utah business engineer: "The glory which one attains in the next world is relative to the amount of his service to his fellow man on earth. And no matter how many dollars you sacrifice, you forget all about it when you see those young dancing feet...
Dusting off a 66-year-old Georgia Supreme Court opinion ("No newspaper has a right while a case is under investigation to comment upon its merits," etc.), Judge Pye then held both Atlanta papers in contempt for "interfering with the business of the court." Said the judge coldly: "The amount of the fine should take into consideration that the offenses were calculated, designed, deliberate and repeated. This corporation [i.e., the papers] takes the position that all that which it here did was its absolute right and privilege to do. It has no such right, and it must be taught...