Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commoner Baron told the Marquess of Reading that he desires the whole trust sum to be expended within 20 years in donations made every Dec. 5, Mr. Baron's birthday...
...Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library will open today, it has been announced. The loan Library has at present in the neighborhood of 5,000 text books which it lends to students in the University at the nominal sum of of $.25 a book. Upon the return of the book $.15 will be returned to the borrower...
Last week a mixed commission was rapidly adjusting the total sum which Nationalist China must pay because her rash soldiery sacked the U. S. Consulate a year and a half ago (TIME, April 4, 1927); and there was every prospect that on Oct. i, 1928 the salute of U. S. gunboats will be returned with alacrity by the so-called "Chinese navy...
...Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, preceptor of the group of brilliant chemists and physicists at the University of Illinois, and president of the chemistry society, opened the meeting with the survey usual at such affairs: "Output of chemical products in this country have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work on rubber wheels...
...reference to Mr. Townsend's letter in TIME for August 6, I should like to tell the story as I have always heard it-which is that when Mr. Wanamaker was a young man some old friend lent him a certain sum of money to help him start in business on condition that no playing cards should ever be sold in his store...