Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There, an escape from Texas' statute forbidding sale of liquor by the glass was provided by a stratagem whereby the ingredients were given away, and a reasonable sum was charged for transportation from bar to tables. The Rice was also headquarters of the Executive Council. In & out the doors of the Council's rooms passed tiny, wax-haired Matthew Woll of the Engravers; smart, tough Dan Tobin of the Teamsters; Dan Tracy of the Electrical Workers; smart, smooth John Coefield of the Plumbers. Still a councilman by virtue of his long service, snow-haired Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison...
Thus bitterly did grey, puttery Charles Edgar Duryea, acknowledged father of the U.S. automobile, sum up his career a few years back. On April 19, 1892 he first scooted his pace-setting gasoline buggy along leafy Taylor Street in Springfield, Mass, to give the four-billion-dollar automobile industry its first real push. His contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building...
...gives humiture 66. Now assume temperature 34°, humidity 98%, gives humiture 66. I hasten to assure you that "the man on the street" will in no wise feel the same. My best observations so far are: multiply the temperature by 5, add the humidity and divide the sum by 6 to obtain the tempidity...
...more remarkable is the fact that she has her personal secretary, Mrs. Scheider, who is in the picture (TIME, Sept. 5), on the public's payroll. Not only that but just a few months ago Mrs. Scheider's salary was upped from $5,400 to the neat sum of $6,000 per annum...
Saturday was also a poor day, with only $750 coming into the coffers. Late Freshmen and an extra high percent of upperclassmen coming in sent Monday's money over the $1750 mark but still was not enough to equal the 1937 sum...