Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photography itself is like an intelligence greater than the sum of the minds that worked to make it. Whatever is seen through the camera has the novelty, strength and directness that the same images might have as they flowed in the thought-stream, rapid and silent, of some vigorous, original mind. Best shot: the War in Filimonov's tortured memory symbolized as a vision of himself as a Russian soldier, meeting and recognizing himself at an intersection of searchlights as a German soldier; then his own image again, as captain of a battery, receiving and executing the order that blows...
Performance. Obviously a vast sum was spent on the Metropolitan's Sadko. The opera demands elaborate, fantastic pictures and, in most instances, Russian Designer Serge Sovdeikine realized them. Particularly striking was the banqueting scene where bearded, bright-coated merchants sat bibbing under a queerly-angled, vivid roof; the scene on the quay where gabbling townspeople watched the crack-brained Sadko fishing for his fortune; the bottom of the sea with its fish-folk orgy. Of the performers, Tenor Edward Johnson as Sadko sang sternly to the merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that...
...announcement that the University has granted a considerable sum to 18 of her professors for the advancement of the "Humanities" may well cause a glow of satisfaction and a sign of relief among the Harvard-minded. Incidentally, it may also serve to obliterate the picture of the Administration in the role of a penny-pinching miser which has recently been conjured up by virtue of a previous financial decision...
...department for the collection and analysis of economic materials; and it was believed that, if such a department should undertake the study of current statistics relating to general business conditions, it would be possible to issue a publication that could become self-supporting. Graduates of the University contributed the sum of $5000 to provide for the necessary preliminary investigations; and Professor Warren M. Persons, formerly of Dartmouth and Colorado Colleges, who at the time was lecturer in economics at Harvard, was engaged to take charge of the work. By the following year his investigations had reached a point which justified...
While the Committee was in process of reorganization, the problem of ways and means was fortunately solved by a generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation of the sum of $150,000, payable in instalments not exceeding $30,000 per annum over a period of five years. The terms of the grant provide for just such research as the Department of Economics visualized when it brought its needs to the attention of the President of the University in 1914. For the first time in its history, the Department can turn to economic research without the feeling that it is expected...