Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never made the big leagues of quiz business. She hit her peak, as Mutual's Queen for a Day, in October 1945, when she won $400 worth of small prizes. Another time, she acquired a shiny new barber chair, which she sold for a secret but satisfactory sum...
Since the Committee's February 29 recommendation for an auditorium addition to Memorial Hall together with a basement student-activities center, Saltonstall declared, investigation has shown that "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive...
Milhaud's "Saudades do Brazil" filled the gap between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents a rather uneven collection of interesting and dull music, chief objection to which lies in the fact that the peaks and lows arrive with such regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance...
With printing costs spiralling upwards, we now pay $110 to print each issue more than double what we paid two years ago. This sum excludes the price of photo ongraving, mailing and the over present incidental expenses. Although advertising normally should cover the cost of each issue, leaving subscription money to take care of the incidentals, we are still short of the $110 per issue despite the particularly large amount of advertising we have been carrying this year...
Even as the bandit feud grew, so did the sum of money that police recovered in their investigations. The figure now is close to the original $50,000 removed from the smoke-filled Coop at the beginning of the year...