Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Supreme Court rose for the summer. Chief Justice Hughes prepared to sail for a vacation at Palermo. Justice Holmes returned to his home at Beverly Farms, Mass, to read and rest. Justice Brandeis hurried away to his sum mer cottage at Chatham near Cape Cod. The golf courses about Buena Vista Spring, Pa. drew Justice Butler. Justice Stone waited for warmer weather before going to fish on his own private island near Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine. Justice Sutherland will spend the summer quietly at Burlingame, Calif. Justice Roberts will farm strenuously...
...knowledge that a major crisis in Chicago banking had been successfully passed. Centre of the disturbance was the Foreman-State National Bank and its affiliate, Foreman-State Trust & Savings Bank. In these two institutions Chicagoans had left $199,000,000 in deposits, only $3,000,000 less than the sum which was frozen when Bank of United States failed...
Data about the stratosphere has long been gathered by instruments borne in rockets and unmanned balloons (small balloons have gone to 100,000 ft.) but the sum total of knowledge is not great. It is known that no clouds or rain occur in the belt. There is a notion that the prevailing wind is easterly, counter to the earth's movement; but Professor Piccard last week snorted: "That's a lot of bosh." Also it was supposed that the stratosphere visitor in daytime would see stars shine in a purple sky. Piccard's sky was deep, dark blue but starless...
...situations are scarcely so felicitous. The authors have told the story of a young married couple modest means who inherit, a considerable sum upon the demise of the lately maligned relative. Previous to this there has been much talk condemning all forms of snobbery. Naturally the sudden windfall of shekels goes directly to the heads of the young people, and they become the incarnation of their own vitriolic epithets. In doing so they make considerable asses of themselves in the eyes of their old friends, although a representative Boston audience looks on with good-natured indulgence. Of course, the third...
...President and Fellows of Harvard University are to receive the sum of $70,000 to be used for the benefit of the Peabody Museum according to the will of the late Augustus Hemenway '79 which was filed for probate at Dedham yesterday...