Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina the sum of more than half a million florins ($220,000) was left by Her Majesty's loyal subject Banker Johan Gerard Daniel Waterler with two stipulations...
...British dirigible R-101 crashed in France and killed 48 occupants because of leaking gas and bad weather. That fact, which everyone already knew, was virtually the sum total of the long-awaited report of the court of inquiry, delivered last week in London. The investigators fixed no blame upon Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, the Secretary of State for Air (killed in the crash) who was said to have hastened the start of the flight to India to precede the opening of the Imperial Conference. But they gingerly admitted that the inadequately tested ship ''would not have started...
...sum recently donated to the University for the publication of Honor Theses by Seniors is highly commendable as an added incentive to good work by the students. Since the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes already passes judgment on the best papers submitted by the various departments, the new system need cause no alteration in the present situation. Furthermore the published booklets will stand as a permanent record of undergraduate accomplishment to be looked back upon in the future...
...swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor's device?to provide whistling valves on flat tires?is sold for a large sum. As farce, it is weak as barley-water...
...come to scarcely more than $30,000,000 and that the residue, to be divided on a percentage basis, might not be more than $20,000,000. Thus, Northfield's share would be only $300,000 and Nanking's about $3,500,000. Even so, it was a huge sum for a theological seminary in China (raising deep questions as to its proper use); but it was not the golden vision which for weeks kept world cables busy. And it left Northfield's Speer with still $880,000 to raise...