Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established a foundation on his seventieth birthday in 1929, endowing it with $1,100,000, the income and capital of which was to be used without restriction "to enlarge the realms of human knowledge, to promote the general, moral, mental, and physical improvement of society so that the sum total of human welfare and wisdom may be increased and the cause of better understanding among all mankind promoted...
...founded by The Torch, Dominican monthly whose editor is Rev. Edward Hughes 0. P. In the Dominicans' swank Manhattan Church of St. Vincent Ferrer last month was unveiled a statue of Blessed Martin (see cut, p. 46), first of a Negro in any U. S. Catholic church. "Non Sum Papabilis." When the College of Cardinals gathered in 1903 to elect a Pope,the following conversation took place between a Frenchman and an Italian:* "Votre Eminence est sans doute archevêque en Italic. Dans quel diocèse?" "Non parlo francese." "In quanam diocesi es archiepiscopus?" "Sum patriarca Venetiae...
...heard about a signal device invented by a "Sheff" engineering professor named Henry A. Haugh. Now widely used, the device automatically changed the traffic lights at highway intersections when cars approached. Two years after graduation Garland organized Automatic Signal Corp., his old friend Professor Fisher putting up a "considerable sum" and becoming board chairman. For the patent the Garland company paid $500 in stock. It was taken into the balance sheet at $7,500. Meantime Yaleman Garland acquired a crony named Arnold C. Mason, Class of 1928 (Sheffield) and a member of a solid St. Louis family. Later a third...
...Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert material going through the intestinal tract unchanged, but rather that it is acted upon by bacteria to a very great degree, and that it is these split products...
Last week was a big week for French Impressionists in Manhattan art galleries. From their capacious cellars, the firm of Durand-Ruel pulled out 13 pictures by Claude Monet to make a show that was not only a résumé of the development of that Frenchman's own style but also a history of Impressionism. Starting with the grey, rather sharply painted Hyde Park, London (1870) and the blue and bright Canotiers à Argenteuil, done in 1875 in a technique that now seems more modern than his later work, the canvases trace Monet's growing absorption...