Word: summed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie Gleason, 47, weighs 258 Ibs., and he likes being the biggest. To indulge that craving, CBS-TV offered its giant ego $6,000,000 (a $1,000,000 raise) to entice him into one more season. Out of that sum, Jackie's Peekskill Enterprises will pay all costs of producing the shows, but what Gleason likes is the size of the price tag. "I'm told it's the biggest one-year contract in the history of television," he chortled. And under the terms agreed on, he is going to try moving the whole show down...
...math teachers also make use of the "number line," which shows the sum of same-size jumps from point to point...
Number lines tell the novice much about fractions. When he takes three of four segments and divides their sum into thirds, he discovers that two of these thirds make one-half of the full unit. He thus has visible proof of the otherwise abstruse fact that 2/3 times 3/4 equals 1/2. By extending the number line leftward beyond zero, he visualizes the concept of negative numbers...
...also something more than the mere sum of his praise and criticism. He is a throwback to the classic American individualist, a mold which produced Thomas Edison and Thoreau-men with the fresh eye that cannot be done. What Fuller sees excites him with the vision of man's potentialities, and he has made it his mission to help man to realize them. Says he: "Man knows so much and does so little." Last week this crackpot stepped off the plane in London, spouting words the minute his feet touched ground, and headed for a dinner in his honor...
...addition to the large request by the Law School, the College is asking for $400,000 in NDEA funds for '64-65. McDonald explained that this sum, added to income from endowed loan funds, would enable the College to meet its obligations without money from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Faculty funds would then be freed for other purposes...