Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maid 3 lb., two of the children 3 lb. each, a third child 1½ lb. Only the 4-year-old son retained his weight when the Rev. Fletcher D. Parker of Hartford, Conn, fed his family for a week at a total cost of $2.24. That sum bought potatoes, pork, lamb, canned milk, butter, flour, rice, prunes and eggs. But no fruit, cereal or fresh milk. Those were the foods, that the amount, on which Hartford social workers last week hoped indigent Hartford families could subsist...
...raise the necessary sum for the Pennypacker Memorial Trophy, the Memorial Society last night launched a drive in the Yard dormitories, in which every Freshman will be interviewed personally by a member of the society. It was decided at a meeting last night to ask no money from the commuters unless the yard donations fail to produce the desired amount, which has not as yet been ascertained...
...control bill over the Congressional hump, he flung out to the Press what the New York Times called "an armful of raw and bleeding figures." The figures were an unanalyzed summary of brokers' profits since 1927. Counsel Pecora knows how to give a sinister twist to any stated sum, particularly if it runs into nine or ten figures, and this time in blackest headlines he declared that New York Stock Exchange firms and members operating as individuals had made $906,000,000-"despite Depression." His report was based on answers to a questionnaire covering brokers' operations...
...money given by the Class of 1934 now and for the next 25 years will be credited with interest toward the traditional sum of $100,000 which every class presents to the College on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary...
...vote of the Executive Board, at a meeting held in the Sanctum last night, the members of the Harvard CRIMSON decided unanimously to assume the debts of the financially prostrate Harvard Lampoon, humorous undergraduate publication, and purchased for an unannounced sum the rights to publication and the building of the organization...