Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witnesses testified that Cheerful Ifremov squandered 4,200 embezzled rubles -no great sum (see col. 3)-on taxi rides to and from a farm on which he kept pigeons...
...cosmologists are not much concerned with the fate of a trivial cluster of peewee planets. When they speak of The End of the World," they mean the death of the whole Universe. The Universe is being done to death, slowly but implacably, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: The sum total of energy in Nature is continually passing from a higher degree of organization to a lower. A speeding train, a hot coffee pot, an inflated toy balloon represent organized energy; when the train stops, when the pot grows cold and the balloon is deflated, energy is scattered, dissipated, disorganized...
15th Century Portraits. Bartolommeo Colleoni was a 18th Century gangster who earned undying fame by making a shrewd contract with the Venetian Republic. He agreed to lead the Venetian army against Milan in return for a large sum in cash and a statue of himself on horseback in the middle of St. Mark's Square. The statue was finally erected blocks away, but it was by Verrocchio. It is now generally considered the greatest equestrian statue in the world...
...Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway, first with mail only, eventually with passengers...
...Depression those millions seem a vast sum to doctors. Although Life Extension Institute examiners tell 100,000 people a year that they need medical attention and had better see their own physicians, doctors nonetheless set up such a sustained grumbling that they last week drove Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. of New York State into court demanding that the Life Extension Institute be dissolved, that its rights, privileges and franchise be forfeited, that a receiver be appointed to liquidate its affairs, that an injunction be issued restraining the Life Extension Institute, President Ley and other officers from exercising their...