Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpected saving of $15,000, according to the estimates of W. J. Bingham '16, Director. Originally planned at a cost of $170,000 the steel stands over the running track and enclosing the open end of the Stadium, will now probably come to no more than the total sum...
What U. S. politician could turn upon a stranger and say, as he once did: "Sir, I have never seen you before and have no desire to see you again. However, since you appear to wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India...
Fortnight ago Gaston Bayle, in the course of a morning's routine work, proved fraudulent a document with which one Joseph Emile Philipponet, traveling salesman, had attempted to obtain a sum of money from his landlord. Last week the thwarted Philipponet came early to the Prefecture of Police, hung about the draughty corridor until Criminologist Bayle stepped briskly through the door, started upstairs to his beloved laboratory. Stepping forward, Salesman Philipponet fired three times. The great Gaston Bayle swayed, then rolled to the stairs, sprawled, gasped up a mouthful of blood, was dead...
...about the same time a clerk in the Ministry of Finance entered the round sum of two million drachmas ($26,000) in his ledger under the heading Secret Government: Expenditures. News organs throughout Greece were warned by the official censor to publish no account of the affair. Friends of Senator Gheka found him uncommunicative...
...this dedication Harvard marks the consummation of the campaign for a larger, better equipped Law School, begun in March, 1926, with an appeal to the American people for funds. As a result of this campaign, a large sum was secured for buildings and land, and with a part of this money the new Langdell Hall was completed...