Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roller coasters loar and twist against the blue carloads of well be haved citizens scream like wild-cats as they approach the appalling drop. This year, nestled among the milder attractions of hot dog stands and cherry-go-rounds, there is a new side show: for a nominal sum one may throw baseballs at a wooden door surmounting a small sliding board, and if one strikes the bullseye in the center of the door it pops open, a bell rings, a young lady in a bathing suit slides down, makes her low to the audience, and departs. There are four...
...various states. For example, Legionnaires from Iowa will sail on the Megantic. Meals in Paris, however, will be excepted from arrangement or routine. Over cafe and restaurant tables Legionnaires will make contact again with waiters to whom food is a poem, drink a philosophy and the tip a sum honorably earned -to be demanded, if necessary, as U. S. small businessmen demand payment of small bills...
...Labor is guaranteed a six-day week (hours undefined) ; extra pay for night work; full pay on national holidays; compensation, in case of discharge, by payment of a sum proportionate to length of service...
...which marked the end of the trial, Aaron Sapiro and his lawyer, William H. Gallagher, had leading roles. They insinuated that the Ford attorneys had forced a mistrial to prevent Henry Ford from taking the witness stand. Incidentally, Mr. Sapiro was no doubt annoyed to have spent a round sum of money-only to find far distant the $1,000,000 which he hopes to get from Mr. Ford because of certain anti-Jewish articles published in the Dearborn Independent (TIME, March 21, 28). It did not seem likely that a new trial could be arranged before next autumn. During...
...since when it has remained forever fair, though the cities and the man for whose sake it was created have long ago filtered into the earth. For centuries, it was believed lost. An art dealer, A. S. Drey, discovered it, sold it to the Metropolitan Museum for a sum not definitely known but rumored to range anywhere from $150,000 to $1,000,000. Funds were forthcoming from the endowment granted by the late Frank A. Munsey...