Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's most important executive act of the week was to sign an order which put FERA's authority to condemn and purchase land in the hands of Administrator Harry Hopkins. First purchase was 5,000 acres in an unnamed spot in "the Midwest" for an unnamed sum...
Coming up from the Freshman team is a bunch of players of whom little definite can be said. Disorganized at the start, they were whipped into shape by Coach Samborski, and have enjoyed a fairly successful season. Outstanding names that will bear watching are Dampeer, Snell, and Litman. The sum of it all is that, what with a steadily improving coach, and an ambitious and hard-driving one also, a new, and in many respects improved crop of players, and a crop of small Feslers on the way, the sun is still rising on Harvard basketball...
...number of diseased students now incarcerated in the Infirmary, while reaching the appalling sum of 35, does not as yet warrant the use of the newly established emergency ward in the Hygiene Building...
...Express was not so generous, Rabbi Yankel Vallach of Lodz not so greedy, as TIME (People. Feb. 25) would have them. If Rabbi Vallach told the Express all he knew about his brother, Soviet Commissar Litvinoff, for 100 zloties, he received a mere $19 and not $1,900-a sum which would have made the good rabbi an exceedingly rich man among his people in Lodz...
...Washington pencil-pushers last week totaled up $50,000 as the minimum cost to the U. S. thus far of recognizing the U. S. S. R., most of this sum being diplomats' salaries. Sick in Philadelphia was U. S. Ambassador to Russia William Christian Bullitt ($14,875), but in Moscow the wife of Chargé d'Affaires John C. Wiley ($7,310) lent her patronage, as did French Ambassador Charles Alphand (648,000 francs) to a ballet by Ulanova, the newest "Soviet Pavlova," who is an appetizing* 23-year-old. With the Soviet Pavlova danced a new "Soviet...