Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponents. The greatness of Harvard and Princeton is predicated upon their contribution to the nation's economic, civic and intellectual life. In comparison with many colleges Princeton and Harvard have woefully inferior football teams. Eliot and Wilson have enhanced the prestige of Harvard and Princeton more than the sum total of football and baseball victories put together. This is not a new observation, most Harvard and Princeton undergraduates realize it. Harvard and Princeton together have been among the leaders in the country in the adoption of the preceptorial and tutorial methods of instructions. Agains in their systems of concentration...
...appropriated to naval replacements. . . . Remember that Germany's defeat was due to an economic blockade! . . . We ask only 122,400,000 more yen ($60,000,000), this year, to replace auxiliary craft now ready to be scrapped. . . . Surely Japan is not so poor that she cannot pay this sum to maintain her present fighting strength! . . . The dawn of our modern naval history has been glorious. The high noon of Japanese sea power must be worthy of our naval heroes who walk with Count Togo through the twilight of life...
Fattest of all prizes at the Chicago Art Institute's 39th annual show last week was one of $1,500 given by Patron Frank Granger Logan, retired grain broker, the Institute's assiduous vice president. This sum they presented to Painter George Benjamin Luks for his strong, broadly painted, modernistic study of a male native of Cuba operating an accordion. Another $1,000 from Patron Logan went to Painter Charles Sydney Hopkinson for a study of himself and his family...
...good job and the right personality. Such a philosophy of transmigration, in short, as might make the Buddha so far forget himself as to grind his teeth in Nirvana. The series of episodes, themselves, are intriguing one-act playlets, little snapshots through the ages, each sufficient unto itself, the sum total going to make up an unusually superficial outline of history. Antoinette Perry's rich voice frequently makes the wooden dialogue come to life. Hugh Buckler's virile characterizations also help...
...gentleman whose name was not to be mentioned had appropriated $20,000 to found in Harvard University a Professorship of Greek Language and Literature; and that the desire of the donor was not to be known or named as its founder Votes of thanks for this, the largest sum that had been bestowed upon the College by a benefactor during his lifetime, were immediately passed by the Corporation, together with an expression of "regret at not being allowed to know or publish the name of the donor," and a prayer "to Him with Whom is the issue of all human...