Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yesterday comes a full-panoplied report from another Army board which reversed, most opportunely for the President, the findings of its own engineers. Even in these days of governmental terminology, $170,000,000 represents a large sum, whether the money is for a presidential whim or not. The canal, indeed, is not even partially self-liquidating, for no tolls will be charged. It is a very notable fact even the ship-owners--the supposed beneficiaries--register a complete lack of enthusiasm for the project. Objections by the Geological Survey, raised in connection with the canal's probable effect upon...
...change existing relations with the British Commonwealth except in so far as use is made of the same machinery utilized by Canada, New Zealand and Australia. . . . I regret our relations are no better than they were with Britain. The British Government still exacts payments through penal tariffs of a sum of money we say is not due. We do not propose to pay it. The Irish people have not surrendered, and are not going to surrender. . . . However, I am certain that this Constitution will not injure the British people but will make it possible for both peoples amicably to come...
...that any will not acceptable to the testator's next of kin may be broken in the courts upon very frivolous grounds". Since in the great majority of cases the superior court upholds the decision of the lower, the University would seem to be in line for a large sum of money...
...Although the Harvard Student Council has contributed in the past a lump sum of $250.00 to the Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross, we believe that some individuals may wish to join in this membership drive. To facilitate this we are asking all Harvard students who may wish to do so to join at Phillips Brooks House...
Strangely enough, the profits of the House Dining Halls and the Union which were recorded for last year, amounted to $46,152.86, a figure practically identical with that of total tobacco costs among the undergraduates. This sum is accounted for in the annual budget under the head of Student Employment, and is regularly anticipated...