Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog. In 1922, after a painful apprenticeship tinting postcards in California and drawing scathing cartoons in Mexico, he joined the famed Syndicate of Revolutionary Artists organized by Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos.* Led by spectacular, pistol-carrying Diego Rivera they worked for a flat sum of eight pesos ($4) a day decorating the corridors and patios of Mexico's public buildings with flaming murals. There were weighty men in that syndicate. Beside Rivera and Orozco there were such names as Jean Chariot, Carlos Merida and Pachecho. Their water boy and official brush washer...
This six-way dissipation of the Dorrance estate by no means slices it into inconsequential lots. Even one-eighth represents a sum few men amass. For filing of the will indicated that the total...
...Dorrance fortune might come to the sum...
Approximately 1000 textbooks have been lent to students for the nominal sum of ten cents per book per year. The Library Committee of the Association has also subscribed to a number of periodicals and magazines which will be placed in the Shepard Room at Brooks House. The Handbook Committee supervised the publication and distribution of about 2500 copies of the Harvard Handbook. This booklet was given to all Freshmen and graduate students coming to Harvard for the first time. The Law School Committee loaned approximately 300 case books to law students for $.25 a year per book. The Graduate Schools...
...hysterical effect on the leading stateswoman present, Britain's Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Miss Susan Lawrence. Eagerly she snatched at a swarthy Indian delegate's proposal that the League spend $20,000 on a "scientific study" of Depression. When a thrifty Dutchman objected that "such a sum, in the circumstances, might seem extravagant," Miss Lawrence bounded quivering to her feet...