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Word: summing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest individual dividend amounts to $87 and will be received by a University student. The sum indicates purchases totalling about $1000 since most of the buying was done on a charge account. The smallest dividend is $.20, although there are several others that run well below one dollar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COOP MEMBERS TO SLICE $70,000 DIVIDEND MELON | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

...prize. In as much as Dr. Mather stated yesterday that the approximate museum value of even so large and well preserved mastodon as Mr. Hirschberg's is not over $15,000, it is believed that the Newark business man has not acted rationally in refusing so large a sum. He has confided to several friends that he will accept $200,000 for the mastodon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER UNEARTHS MASTODON REMAINS | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...head, nor sit for thirty hours at his desk without moving,--as men have sat, or said that they have sat.' And Anthony Trollope wrote many pages, many hours every day, and his books are still read and loved, and he earned $350,000 by his pen. A goodly sum for a writer in a life time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Leads in Producing Authors Is Ellsworth Report | 9/25/1926 | See Source »

...This sum was announced as the staggering marriage dot of the daughter of Henry Ford. She, tender, susceptible, had yielded to the suit of Count Alexander Skrzynski (6 ft. 3 in.), onetime Premier of Poland (TIME, May 3) who visited here last year (TIME, July 27). Miss Ford would bring to Poland enough gold to send the zloty zooming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Staggering Dot | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...will be divided equally between myself, my other brother, Alberto, who is now in Hollywood, and the aunt of Winifred Shaughnessy Hudnut, Mrs. Teresa Werner, who took such motherly care of Rudolph after Winifred had divorced him last year. Winifred (also known professionally as Natacha Rambova) was bequeathed the sum of $1. The bulk of Rudolph's estate will come from his earnings in his last two films, The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik. However, there are other things: his two homes, three Isotta Frachini cars, three other automobiles, the yacht Phoenix, duelling pistols and medieval arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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