Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty boost. The Government decreed that no more packages containing food may enter Russia destined for private persons. Hereafter the tens of thousands of Russian emigres who have been mailing food to relatives and friends left behind in Russia will have just one recourse. They can pay a sum of money to a representative of Torgsin.* They can mail to anyone in Russia a receipt for their money called a "purchase order." In exchange for this order any Torgsin store in Russia will deliver food or goods at above prices...
...Tactfully Colonel Lindbergh declined. Instead he agreed that the pictures be sold to one of the eager news services for $4,000, the proceeds to provide a bed for soldiers & sailors in the Shanghai Hospital. Only Col. Lindbergh's good friend the Times thought the pictures worth that sum. The money was paid; the Lindbergh-Hermes Memorial Bed made possible...
...French Government, through its Embassy at Washington, has presented Harvard University with the sum of 50,000 francs, to be used "in Strengthening the friendship between this country and France by spreading the knowledge of the French language." The interest will be used, every two years as a scholarship to some student of the French Department who is working for a doctorate, and who could not complete his thesis without several week's study in French libraries or archives...
...decided yesterday at a meeting of the Interhouse Athletic Committee. Lowell, Leverett, and Dunster Houses will retain the management of their own courts but have agreed to honor the H. A. A. participation ticket. At the end of the year a lump sum, based upon the number of times tickets have been presented in the course of the year, will be paid each of the recalcitrant Houses to partially cover the cost of upkeep...
...will be profitable, in spite of their familiarity, to sum up the grounds on which criticism of the colleges is based. The essence of that criticism is an attack on the expert. This characteristic member of modern society, it is seen, has a technique for dealing with certain situations in a certain way. But his course is laid out for him. He pursues that course along a track of definite gauge from which there is no switching. And the specialized scholar is bound by the same chains. He knows the meaning of his facts in only a limited sense...