Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the will left by Mrs. Mary McBurney Gardiner, who died September 26 at her home in New, York, the sum granted will be held in trust until after the death of her husband, William Howard Gardiner, president of the Navy League from...
...William Osler, probably the greatest medical teacher who ever lived, once warned his profession that the fate of the tubercular depended more on what they had in their heads than on what was in their chests. ... A germ or a peculiar condition of body cells is [not] the sum and substance of disease...
...former LIFE science editors, Gerard Piel, 32, and Dennis Flanagan, 28, bought the magazine from Patent Lawyer Orson Munn, whose family had owned it for 101 years. For an undisclosed sum, they got the magazine's typewriters, circulation, Manhattan office space and paper. Editor Piel and Managing Editor Flanagan hope to hold the old readers, and get new ones, by effecting a change that "will be as great as the change from the old Life to the new LIFE...
...asking that Mr. Wallace present a counter policy, it must be remembered that he would face difficulties far exceeding those of government policy making officials. What is refereed to as "policy" is often the sum of routine, day-by-day decisions. It is often dictated by circumstances which offer no alternative often the result of a chance decision or of inertia and unwillingness to take the most difficult path. But Mr. Wallace, as a private citizen, were to construct a policy it would have to be built without access to certain confidential material, without the impetus of immediate, necessary decisions...
...good deal. From what this football player had said, there weren't any facts to learn, easy exams, and somehow you ended with a fabulous knowledge of our heritage. Heritage was the word the guy had used. The description of Humanities 18 sounded promising: "This course attempts to sum up Western culture through the reading of three short French poems. They may be read in translation. Attention will be paid to the philosophical and sociological implications of the reading in the weekly lecture. Enrollment is limited to 600." Satisfied, Vag closed the book and ambled over to Holyoke House...