Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name Picnic still survives in the minds of many. Both the picnic and celebration have always been largely financed by the money extorted from the Freshman class when the pictures are taken. This year an hour and a half of strenuous supplication by the Seniors netted but the meager sum of $159.13, an amount hardly large enough to carry the entire celebration...
This deficit must be met by the "guarantors" of the organization, and represents about 65% of the sum they have actually guaranteed. Mr. Samuel Insull, President of the company's Board of Trustees, spoke cheerfully in announcing this news. "Last year," said he, "the guarantors had to pay $351,718.58-or a full 70 % of their guarantee." Anyone mathematically inclined can now figure out that if the affairs of the company continue to improve at this rate, the backers will have to dig into their bankrolls for only 13 additional seasons-that is, until...
...will be exempted from the registration fee, and will be given special rates for board and transportation expenses. The regular expense of attending the conference, including board, room, registration fee, and railroad fare will be about $40 though in cases where men can not afford to pay the entire sum, arrangement may be made at the Phillips Books House. The conference will be made up of representative students from most of the colleges of the New England and Middle Atlantic states, and is a most broadening experience...
...British claim is made up principally of a $4,322,000,000 pre-War debt. The interest on this sum alone would probably be more than Soviet Russia could...
After a cursory view of TIME'S sum mary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...