Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sum of $10,000 also is left to the Harvard Corporation "to be invested and the income thereof to be added to the principal for, and during the term of 100 years from the date of my decease, and at the expiration of said term, the principal sum, together with the accumulated interest, be divided into two equal funds". One of these funds is to be used for the care and maintenance of the Arboretum. The income from the second is to be added to the principal for another 100 years when the income is to be available...
...sake, they journeyed on the more round-about way of "Roxbury Neck." The ferry belonged to the college by a grant from the General Court and brought in to the University every year an income of about 500 pounds in New England currency, or 50 pounds sterling, a considerable sum according to the standards of the time...
...General Court of Massachusetts, in response to a request from the Corporation of the University, issued a grant of lottery, allowing Harvard to raise a sum of 8,000 pounds. But operations were sluggish, and with the money drifting in slowly, it was not until 1804 that the college had sufficient funds to start work on Stoughton Hall. The total cost was $23,700, $18,400 coming from the proceeds of the lottery and $5,300 from the general funds of the college...
...Naval Appropriation Bill which gives the Navy $316,000,000 for the fiscal year of 1928. Of this sum $19,808,000 will be used for naval aviation, $450,000 is allotted to begin the construction of three new cruisers. The last item has been steadfastly opposed by the President; he made no comment...
...Britons arriving at Shanghai from the North, last week, told how the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin recently sat in at a Mah Jong game at Peking for 37 consecutive hours, tired out three sets of opponents, and finished with approximately the same sum with which he had sat down to play. For a week thereafter, he was unapproachable, ordered cut off the heads of two of his own officers for the usually insignificant offense of forcing their way into a Peking theatre without paying for seats...