Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election as district attorney or even to Congress. But he decided to run for the hack job of Sheriff of Erie County. Doing so meant giving up his legal career for three years, but during those three years the sheriff's fees would reach a good fat sum, perhaps $40,000, at any rate much more than could be made at law. So down among the bars where he sometimes caroused between bouts of terrific hard work, word was passed around that "Big Steve" was out for sheriff. The Buffalo Courier cried: "He is at the same time...
...Markle. The syndicate paid $95 per share. It happened that the corporation was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105 per share. So the syndicate sold the 14,550 shares to the corporation, making a profit of $145,500 on the transaction. The suit was to recover this sum for the stockholders with interest and dividends which brought total damages to $400,000. Held Justice Pecora...
...researcher, Professor Victor Franz Hess, 53, of Austria's Innsbruck University, and 31-year-old Professor Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, discoverer of a fundamental particle of matter, the positive electron. Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that sum...
...college organism. Feasible combinations of abilities seem to be double-decked at best, and the real "triple-threat" man as rare as an autumnal leaf in spring. Potentially the choice may seem ideal, but in actual experience limiting factors, such as the amount of the instructor's time, the sum of his energy, and the direction of his main interest prove almost insuperable. The fear, simply expressed, is that the tide is running strongly away from excellent teaching and toward research; further, and even more serious, that teaching is no longer regarded as being truly creative in the same sense...
With the awarding of the first $400, there is a remainder of $900 at the disposal of the Council. One third of this sum comprises the Ames Scholarship, given by Mrs. Robert Ames, of Wayland, in memory of the late Richard G. Ames '34 and Henry R. Ames...