Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police knew who the dead man was, and who owned the hut. Both were Existentialists-followers of the morbid postwar philosophy which holds that man is nothing but the sum of his experience and that all experience is inexplicable and tragic (TIME, Jan. 28). Was this an Existentialist murder? The police asked that question of the hut's owner. "An interesting problem," he answered tranquilly...
...strength of the strike, Berwick stock has climbed from 17? to 50? a share. Burke owns 300,000 shares. He will get a lump sum "bonus" (amount still undetermined) from his employers, plus 15% of the stock issue in a new Rush Lake-Berwick firm to be called Joe Burke Gold Mines. Mining men last week guessed that he could get half a million dollars for his holdings, if he wanted to sell. Said Joe Burke: "Pot of gold...
Known as the Sowjetische Industrie A.G. (Soviet Industrial Corp., and owned 51% by the Russian state and 49% by Germans), the enterprise has an official capital of over eight billion marks ($800,000,000). Its real value is estimated at twice that sum. It employs nearly 400,000 workers and embraces the choicest 30% of all German industry in the Soviet zone, including I.G. Farben. Russian reparation seizures and forced nationalization already took care of other large chunks. Economic pharaoh of this pyramid of 13 trusts was one Alexei Resnikov...
...first great leader of modern Zionism (the name given the Return) was Theodor Herzl, who had been a foppish Viennese journalist until the Dreyfus case in France convinced him that Jews could never hope to be assimilated by other peoples. Herzl, who once claimed to sum up life in the words of a French popular song ("Life is vain, a bit of hope, a bit of hate, and then-good night!"), suddenly became the dynamic leader of Russian ghetto dwellers. At first he favored a British suggestion that persecuted Jews settle in fertile Uganda, but he found his followers would...
Final impetus to put the drive over the top was received from a $500,00 check in the faculty mail and recent collections at the Widener desk. This latter sum was made possible through the efforts of an anonymous young woman who called Campbell by phone to ask "if there was anything she could do." She was subsequently put to work in Widener, where she collected...