Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bravo for Alec Gushing. Why waste time catering to cash customers when the State of California is willing to dole out $4,000,000, and then Uncle Sam, not to be outdone, forks over an equal amount. Gushing gets my vote for snob-con man of the year. HERB AMMERMULLER Great Neck...
...Cannon's career took the couple all over the world. During her travels, Mrs. Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...
...anonymous donor stipulated that the entire amount of the gift be spent on awards to freshmen and sophomores in the Classes of '63 and '64. Consequently, $15,000 to $20,000 will be spent on the incoming freshman class next fall, and an equal amount on both the freshman and sophomore classes the following year...
...total of 1.2 million graduates gave over $129 million to United States colleges and universities during the past fiscal year. This amount, an increase of 29 per cent over the previous year, was the highest ever contributed...
...cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would amount to "professional suicide...