Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College had existed for 85 years before an endowed professorship was established. In 1721, Thomas Hollis gave the foundation fund for the professorship of divinity which still bears his name. He endowed Harvard outright with a sum of money, the interest of which 40 pounds per year, was to be the "honorable stipend" of Professor of Divinity, "to read lectures in the Hall of the College unto the students; the said Professor to be nominated and appointed from time to time by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; and when choice is made of a fitting person...
August Heckscher, zinc, realty: "I find myself fertile with philanthropic ideas. Last week I promised to Mayor Walker of New York $250,000,000 to replace New York slums with model dwellings, if the city and state governments will supply a like amount. I will raise my sum by dunning 500 rich friends for $500,000 each, to be paid in five yearly instalments. Mayor Walker dared not scoff. Others were impressed...
...other words, Colonel George Brinton McClellan Harvey had done a tiny piece of business. He had sold the North American Review, a magazine often found in libraries, to a corporation lawyer named Walter Butler Mahony, brother-in-law of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, for a sum that he refused to state.* And why did Colonel George Harvey sell his magazine? Because he is going to write the biography of Henry Clay Frick...
...Pennsylvania, as is well-known, immense sums were spent in the last primary by the Candidates, although it is of interest to note that the greatest sum expended failed to obtain the election. In Illinois a somewhat different slant was given to the matter, since the expenses of the two opposing candidates came from the same source, that is, the so-called erection interests. In this way, whoever won the election, the traction interests, so to speak, came...
Without counting the settlement in question, he is estimated to have already received from German sources a sum totaling more than $1,000 (TIME, June 28), for every day since his abdication...