Word: sum
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...profession appears already to be a useful one, for the whole modern world is demanding its services. And it can properly aspire to be noble, for at its best its members' services can augment the sum of human welfare...
...Vaktins spent their lifetime savings to build the two-story country house four years ago. Alexander's sister supplied construction materials cheaply, since she worked in the trade. His mother helped pay for the bricks. The dacha cost about 10,000 rubles, a sum that could have bought two cars at the time. But the property is debt free, and the Vaktins relax there every Sunday...
...does enhanced choice add up to less than the sum of its parts? I believe that the number of students accepted to their first-choice house would be enough to reestablish the stereotypes of those houses, but not enough to recapture the integrity of allowing students to decide where to live...
...dimensional ballroom in Beauty and the Beast) to create the incredible tiger's head exterior of the Cave of Wonders, the interior tunnels of the cave and Aladdin's first magic carpet ride, reminiscent of the cave sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Aladdin's animation is the sum of knowledge accumulated from past efforts like Sleeping Beauty--for example, Jafar's transformation into a overpowering serpent in Aladdin far surpasses the visual impact of the witch's metamorphosis into a towering dragon in Beauty...
Rebuilding America from the sum of its parts...