Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norsemen did not do it for love. By admiralty law salvagers are entitled to a sum fixed by an admiralty judge. Papers filed in a suit to collect such a sum are called by sea-lawyers a "libel" (Latin: libellus, a little book). To get their money the owners of the Norwold filed a libel attaching the Arminda and her cargo. Judge Cochran ruled last week that since the Arminda is officially a warship belonging to a nation friendly to the U. S., the Norsemen could not libel the ship herself. He suggested that they file separate papers against...
Contrary to the general belief, a covered rink at Soldiers Field would involve an expenditure of not more than $150,000. West Point has erected a rink, with an auxiliary artificial ice plant for such a sum, and Harvard could erect a rink to meet all its needs with a similar sum. The Director of Athletics in his last three reports to the President, has called attention to the need of such an addition to the athletic plant...
...film, there is an exquisite prologue; and to sketch this prologue is to sum up the spirit that runs through "Zwei Herzen." It is a summer's day in Vienna, and the year is 1830. In Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are opened wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window, and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellowed keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing...
...heroism, mercy and ingenuity guided the Good People, greed, extortion and ingenuity guided the Bad People. Thus $3 is a huge sum, and always has been, to some of Chapei's desperate poor, yet $3 was extorted again and again by Chinese sampanmen to ferry a refugee across the 60-ft. wide Soochow Creek to doubtful safety...
...into a well recognized form of business blackmail. With its last few thousand dollars (or a lawyer on a contingent fee) the small company threatens the big one with a suit for damages because of unfair competition. If a settlement is not forthcoming the racketeer sues for some staggering sum, the victim gets publicity bad for any business, possibly a government investigation...