Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering all the millions now being spent in building construction in enlarging the Harvard Plant, one wonders why a comparatively small sum cannot be put aside to replace Wadsworth House with a structure adequate to the needs of a University such as Harvard, and to increase an admittedly small hygiene department to proper proportions...
...least part of this sum might be profitably used to defray the expenses of maintaining and operating the university's athletic equipment. At present this item is met almost entirely out of charges to students using the facilities. Locker fees, squash and tennis court charges, and the swimming pool charge are the main sources of this income. The amount spent in this way during the past year was$89,589.43, or about $3,000 less than the surplus plied up in a year which was scarcely expected to show any profit...
...Price. Last fortnight, Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Corp. sold certain power properties to Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., subsidiary of National Power & Light Co. for an undisclosed sum (TIME, Nov. 3). Last week it was reported that the price was $281,085 in cash, plus 115,000 shares of National Power & Light Common. At current prices this stock represents nearly §4,000,000; if National Power & Light should regain its 1930 high the 115,000 shares would be worth some...
...November 16--A gift has been made to Phillips Exeter Academy by Edward S. Hark-ness, donor of the Harvard House Plan, for the purpose of making definite improvements in secondary education at Exeter, it was announced here tonight by Lewis Perry, principal of the Academy. The exact sum of money given was not made public...
...piece of folly undertaken to sell an automobile on which he still owed payment. This commercial venture lands the young man in the workhouse for a spell and when he comes home, in Act I, instead of being invited to share the fatted calf, he is offered a small sum of money if he will forever absent himself from England...