Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Dental School has maintained an even keel in accordance with the reputation which the other branches have earned for the University. Its handicaps have been far greater. To a large extent, the school is dependent upon its alumni to share the burden of the teaching; receiving a nominal sum of fifty dollars a year, these men contribute their time with an obvious loss to their practice. There are very few full-time instructors. In all Science, research is the dominating factor, and it is in this particular that the Graduate School suffers most. Not only is there very little...
...item in the Senate bill which President Hoover did not recommend: $60,000 more for upkeep of the Senate Office Building. Prime pleader for that sum was New Hampshire's Senator George Higgins Moses who. as chairman of the Rules Committee, is the building's chief custodian. His explanation: "The building was infested with cockroaches until we found the source of it, down below, and closed it up. They became so lively that some of them were holding debates with the office force and making life unpleasant for Senators. I had to hire extra scrubwomen. . . . Remember, every Senator...
Last week President Hoover sent to Congress a request for another $150,000 to keep the delegation solvent, if not active, at London. This sum he expected to last until mid-April, before which a termination of the parley is not looked...
Today the enormous sum of at least 40,000,000 yen ($20,000,000) constantly "floats" in these gift certificates, making them a sort of extra-legal currency, backed by no security and fraught with such danger that the Imperial Government has become alarmed, launched an investigation. Small shopkeepers, their business ruined, charge that in fact more than 200,000,000 yen floats in gift certificates, the ignorant public receiving no interest, while the big stores invest and fatten on the money...
...March 13--The construction of a laboratory for the study of practical applied hydraulics at the Harvard Engineering School was made possible by a $50,000 bequest in the will of Clemens Herschel '61, noted hydraulic engineer, who died on March 1. In the will probated here today the sum was set aside as a trust fund for Mrs. Herschel, to revert to Harvard on her death...