Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferry concession was immediately rented for an annual sum of 30 pounds. After eight years of difficulties with the concession, the two gentlemen who had rented it surrendered their title, explaining to the Court that what little payment actually was made by passengers was in "refuse, unwrought, broken, unstrung, and unmerchantable peag wampum." Later in the same year President Dunster informed the Court that "all the bad and unfinished wampum made by the Indians finds its way into the college treasury from ferry toll." Nevertheless, Harvard held on to the concession and its returns until 1785, when the first toll...
...thing--play for an instant against Yale. Back in the days when Harvard and Yale were the kingpins of the college world, this was the logical arrangement. But in 1947 although the Yale game is still the climax of the season, it is no longer more important than the sum of the other games despite earnest dreams of ancient athletes...
Although this meant that aid to China was at last out of the pigeonhole, it seemed too little, too late. Some grim Chinese, who compared Marshall's sum to the $500 million a month he proposed to spend to buttress Western Europe, decided that the time had come to write off the U.S. entirely. Said Chinese Vice President Sun Fo: "A drop in the bucket.. . . I've always had a hidden suspicion that American friendship was not dependable...
...sum total of the evening is a remarkably well-balanced serving of Coward, tremendously enhanced by his expert direction. Even in the weak moments of "Fumed Oak," the element timing of action and dialogue carries the audience past the inherent failures of the work: and although the middle-class experiment fails through author's in ability to combine his overeager social consciousness with a saving fluency of dialogue, the director's fine sense of timing and contrast save the piece as a whole. Indeed, the neatly-balanced combination of Coward and Coward make the Shubert bill worth...
...faculty members in a signed statement called upon the national legislature to back the $22 million relief sum suggested by the 16-nation report in response to the American Marshall plan, and asked that no political strings be attached to the humanitarian program...