Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least, was his pleasant routine till a year ago. when the outbreak of the Spanish War touched off a hitherto well-hidden social consciousness, enlisted him violently on the Loyalist side. No longer big-incomed, he managed to raise $40,000 on his personal notes and dispatched the sum to buy ambulances for Madrid, followed soon after (with Joris Ivens, John Ferno, John Dos Passos) to film The Spanish Earth. Returning last June to soundtrack his commentary on the film, he paused long enough to pronounce before the League of American Writers, in his first public speech, a scathing indictment...
...took a Radcliffe to establish the high mark, and she not the pace eight years ago. Her dividend check was for the tidy sum of $1,200, showing that she had bought at least $12,000 in cash purchases. "She bought some of practically everything," Cole stated, "but she specialized in collecting rare books...
...means been stung for the last time by Gadfly L&233;vitt. Last January, restless as ever, Mr. Cummings' special assistant slipped into a Senate Committee hearing to oppose unsuccessfully the permanent appointment of Governor Cramer, ask an investigation in the Virgin Islands. Said Mr. Cummings: "I can sum up my attitude in three words: I am disgusted...
...affray, some of the Chinese had taken flight, while the remaining one hundred Chinese were lying slain upon the ground. The dispatch added that the leader of the valorous band of eleven had suffered a sligh cut from a Chinese sword, which was the sum total of the Nipponese injuries...
...institution ranked first in all the measures, obviously the sum of its ranks would be 28. The nearest approach to this unanimity of rank is found in the case of Harvard University, the sum of whose rank total 63. Harvard stood first in thirteen of the measures, Columbia in three, Chicago, California, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton in two each, and Yale, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Massachusetts, Institute of Technology in one each. A complete tabulation is shown in the accompanying table. Relative Standing of Sixteen American Graduate Schools According to Composite of 28 Crietria Institution Sum of Ranks 1. Harvard...