Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strength & Possibilities. According to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, the U. S., in order to wage an offensive war against Japan in the far Pacific, would have to double its projected fleet, spend a huge sum (perhaps $8,000,000,000) beyond what is now planned for the Navy...
...Institute's young (40), affable director who suc ceeded Dr. Breasted, explained last week that the Institute used to get fat annual appropriations from the Rockefellers' General Education Board. In 1936 the Board, which had started to distribute its capital gave the Institute a final lump-sum endowment of $2,000,000. The Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however, has a party...
Stange was given the History and Literature prize of $50, which annually goes to the Junior who "shows the greatest promise among men concentrating in this field." The entire sum must be used for buying books...
...Friday; that immoral pastimes such as the dance shall be indulged in; that wild revelry shall shriek through hallowed halls until the first vestiges of dawn. In other words, in an effort to laugh down the sinister smirk of finals, Leverett House is throwing a dance. For some trivial sum, you will be able to prance and dance to the music of Kent Bartlett and watch a smooth, suave exhibition of what should be (but ain't) done on the dance floor...
Legend has it that Eastman paid Baekeland $1,000,000, several times the minimum sum on which the young inventor had set his mind. At all events, he found himself, at 35, rich enough to do what he pleased. He converted a stable in his back yard into a laboratory. He found that phenol (carbolic acid) and formaldehyde interacted to make a non-melting, non-dissolving solid like nothing in nature. This was Bakelite, foundation stone of the synthetic plastic industry. After forming General Bakelite Co. (later Bakelite Corp.) to exploit his discovery, Baekeland methodically listed 43 industries in which...