Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council also announced that its budget for this year amounted to $5256, a sum pledged and collected from the undergraduate body this September. This figure shows little depreciation over last year's total of $5461. The Council as yet has made no definite apportionment of the funds, pending a careful investigation of the organizations to which they have been accustomed to give money, because in past years no definite information has been obtained as to what has been done with the money...
...night involves only the use of the electric lights for a few hours, and one attendant"--is not quite correct. It means not only that expense but also the expense of heating, which alone is figured at five dollars an evening, and unfortunately these expenses amount to a higher sum of money than our budget will stand...
...Winter Relief Fund of 500,000,000 marks ($175,000,000 Roosevelt), largest in German history. Though contributions are supposed to be "voluntary," resolute Storm Troops have enforced the principle that German workers must contribute 1% of their net wages, salaried employes a little more, housewives a monthly sum which they are required to save by denying their families one hearty Sunday dinner per month, substituting a meal which must not cost over 50 pfennigs per person. Officially the 500,000,000-mark fund is administered by the German Red Cross, Evangelical Church, Catholic Church and Nazi Relief Bureau. Last...
...energy index" is a measure of the ability of a person's heart to endure an operation. To compute the energy index, add the blood pressure while the heart is contracted to the blood pressure while the heart is dilated, and multiply the sum by the pulse rate. A normal person, said Dr. W. Stanley Sykes of Leeds, England, has an energy index of 14,400 millimetres of mercury per minute, or the ability to lift that much mercury by the force of the heart action. If the figure runs...
Meanwhile, Sir Frederick had presented himself at the State Department and at the Treasury, where he met his opposite number, young Undersecretary Dean Acheson. Each side made friendly little announcements. From a Treasury spokesman: "There is no use disguising the fact that the British cannot pay the entire sum due. To proceed on any other basis would be foolish." From Sir Ronald Lindsay: "Cancellation might come into the discussion, but it will go out again just as quickly, if I understand the feeling...