Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together with the panelled room which housed the collection in the owner's residence. Rembrandt's famous "Portrait of an Old Man" is among the group, which includes well-known works of Franz Halls, Bartolome Murillo, Lorenzo Di Credi El Greco, and others. The Naumberg gift included the sum of $125,000, which is to be used for the installation and maintenance of the collection...
...added swishing gourds to the conventional percussives. But most of H. P.'s music was too obtrusively harsh and loud for listeners on first hearing to detect the Indian tunes which he claims to be part & parcel of his work. It costs Mary Louise Curtis Bok a tidy sum to finance the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company's carefully prepared productions. When Stokowski conducts, the bills are still higher because he likes to use the full Philadelphia Orchestra. But Stokowski asked nothing for his tense, vital leadership last week. He returned from his Mexican travels in the best...
Votes. With Congressman Doughton, he started from scratch three weeks ago to fight the Sales Tax, which was to raise about one-half ($595,000,000) of the sum required to balance next year's Budget. He had no organized backing except the dissatisfaction of members with this backlog tax, no political power except his own arguments. Yet so well did he regiment the opposition to the Sales Tax fortnight ago that the House, as a preliminary to replacing that levy with other forms of revenue, boosted the normal and surtax rates beyond those in the bill. Under his spurring...
...Schoolboy Stalin plausibly explained, in obedience to the injunction of an Orthodox Bishop who had said, "If you hear sacrilegious speech, close the mouth of the blasphemer with your hand." In mathematics, according to Father Bogoyavlenski, "Stalin always stood at the foot of the class. Asked to do a sum in addition, he said the answer was one thousand. 'Only one thousand?' the teacher inquired. 'Well then a million!'" retorted generous Schoolboy Stalin. Berlin rumors last week that famed Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture but actually...
...nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast sum for Japan...