Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Employment Bureau of the University in aiding such men to obtain paid social service work. It also maintains a Text book Loan Library of about 4,500 books which have been contributed by students. These books may be borrowed for the year by any student for the sum of five cents--a deposit of twenty-five cents a book being required, of which twenty is returned when the book is brought back. This year 1,650 books have been borrowed from this library and 205 have been borrowed from the similar Law Loan Library. Those students...
...holder will receive the sum of $4,200 for the year. A further sum, not exceeding $750, may be allotted for expenses necessitated by the research, such as travel. The remainder of the income of the endowment will be reserved for publication. Payments will be made in ten monthly installments of $350, a final payment being made upon the presentation of a completed manuscript giving the results of the research. The holder will be required to report periodically to the Committee concerning the progress of his research. Although registered in Harvard University as Research Fellow, he need...
...TIME, Jan. 17] the Pons Asinorum is the proposition stating the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse. This is the Pathagerean Theorem. The Pons Asinorum states that if two sides of a triangle are equal the angles opposite these sides are equal. Pons refers to the figure used to prove the proposition...
...dollars. Membership in the Supreme Kingdom costs twelve dollars if one joins as a "Crusader", 500 dollars, as a "Mystic Knight", 1000 dollars as a "Foundation Member". The general manager for this twentieth century scale of indulgences is one Edward Clarke, who has already earned a sum running into six figures by commissions off the sale of memberships to the Ku Klux Klan. Such a man finds that religion and patriotism...
...Bridge of Asses," fifth proposition of Greek Geometrist Euclid (third century B. C.), showing that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse, so-called because when it is reached by the average geometry class, asinine pupils stumble...