Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject and so referred it to Mr. Sargent, even though there is in Section 10,348 of the revised statutes of the U. S. the following law which makes it a crime to "make, issue, circulate or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token or other obligation for a sum less than $1 intended to circulate as money or to be received in lieu of lawful money of the United States...
...address. At the postoffice I had a copy of TIME weighed and bought the necessary folders on which I wrote my Italian address. These folders I left with the caretaker and each week he wrapped TIME in one and placed it again in the mail. For the small sum of 23? I received ten weeks of TIME and on my return I had three issues waiting for me which had been held while I was making the trip back...
...solicited were surprised at this quick sweep to popularity. So, no laggards, they at once produced semisoft collars of goods like the Van Heusen material. He sued them for infringement of patents and got $3,000,000 upon compromise. John B. Bolton expected to receive 30% of this sum for his work on the fabric. He got nothing, sued. Last week there was another compromise, whereby Mr. Bolton received more than $1,000,000 from Mr. Van Heusen...
...would he admits be nice; but to get $250,000 would be over picker. A brief cable from Lasky rather spoiled that plan however and realizing that it would be curel to deprive the public of such a treat Mr. Shaw has come down to $100,000 at which sum the matter stands while the Paramount Pictures deliberate...
...clear that there was more than one sort of American in the days of Victoria, and more than one exponent of the varied ideas of the period. This is worth while, for it points a warning against the sort of generalization which is fatally easy when one attempts to sum up the ideas of a region or period or circle by such vaguely defined words of all work as Puritanism, Americanism, Victorian, and the like