Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case in many prominent universities in the country. Students at Princeton and Yale, for example, have access to tutoring agencies that are so efficient that they have the reputation of "spotting" a large majority of the examinations given during the year. These agencies practically guarantee, for a stipulated sum, to make it possible for a student to pass any course in which he may need assistance...
...with machine gun bullets and killed some 400 Indians at Amritsar in 1919. General Dyer received the censure of the House of Commons by a vote of 230 to 129, was endorsed by the House of Lords 129 to 86, and finally accepted from the Morning Post a large sum of money spontaneously made up by individual Britons...
...supply measures. ¶ In New York, John Davison Rockefeller & son gave Chairman Seward Prosser's committee $1,000,000, providing 200,000 days of work for the jobless. With Edward Stephen Harkness's gift of $500,000, the committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting Central Park benches, digging sewers in The Bronx, performing clerical work in city hospitals, pitching manure on Park Avenue's thin central strip of grass. Total thus employed: 17,300. ¶ New Orleans jobless began hawking...
...home service or $1.25 for foreign + 25% of this sum...
...figures to a fully consolidated basis, accounts receivable shrank from $17,000,000 to $4,000,000 while inventories soared from $5,000,000 to $12,000,000. The total profits from 1925-29 under the old system were $69,500,000, an overstatement of $11,000,000. This sum was subtracted from Gillette's surplus, as was $4,600,000 used to develop the much advertised new razor and blade...