Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five years has Prosecutor Johnson argued a case in court, except to sum...
...much as $75,000 at a time.) One by one, Mr. Dewart handed each bill to Mrs. Wood who examined it minutely, passed it for further scrutiny to her sister, Miss Mary E. Mayfield, to her daughter Emma and to the hotel manager. When all had nodded approval, the sum was noted as paid. In 1907, thoroughly frightened by the financial panic, Mrs. Wood drew all her money out of the banks, virtually disappeared with her daughter and sister...
...statement could more perfectly sum up the anarchic way out of a difficulty than the letter from Eugene L. Bolisle in your issue of October 19. The too frequent habit of democratic communities, of taking the easy way, of resorting to makeshift, which has brought democracy as a system to disrepute, is just what the letter appeals to. The final statement "People are suffering, this is the only issue, Harvard can give money. This is the only answer", reveals the loss of perspective in preoccupation with a small difficulty, which has made some people believe, that democracy cannot possibly achieve...
...adopted such a policy, but the majority hide their true condition in a conglomerate of massive figures. The Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, old, much patronized by dowagers, is unusually frank. Its statement of resources provides for 21 items and even separates coin from paper money. Yet a sum of ten millions includes all "public securities." How much of the amount is in Governments, how much in less liquid State and Municipals is not revealed...
...money. A waiting list of 2,000 was ready to snap at vacancies. The School Board owes the teachers $10,695,973, has no funds in sight. Taxes are due next month, but it is doubtful how much can be collected. It might be two years before the whole sum is raised. Destitute, desperate, many teachers have accepted "script." an I. O. U. from the city, cashable for much less than its face value. First day of registration, high school enrolment was 18,000 greater than last year. A factor: more grammar school graduates were going to high school rather...