Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman heard the sum-up of his advisers - Secretary Jimmy Byrnes, Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley, War Mobilizer John Snyder, Fleet Admiral William Leahy. Then the President spoke his mind: he was dead set against the U.S. adding to its reputation as a Santa Claus; he wanted Lend-Lease cut to a minimum now, liquidated as quickly as possible...
...Holy Cross monks' lives are by no means all retreat and seclusion. An early rule of the order was "designed to train every man for what he can do best" and to make him ready for "any sum mons." Best-known summons was the one which called Father Sill to found Kent School in an old farmhouse on Connecti cut's Housatonic River in 1906. There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford...
...writer once believed that the sum total of the individual civic intelligences of any group of normal men & women formed a group intelligence level that made this definition of democracy workable. He still thinks it is the best form of government for America, composed as it is of many races. But he is now convinced that no one breed of man is singly capable of free and unmonitored self-government...
Perhaps. But Dominion status would confer undeniable advantages. India would join a free concert of nations who wielded an influence in world councils more potent than the sum of their parts. Industrial India, with a swiftly rising output (mostly steel and textiles), would expand most rapidly under the careful nurturing of imperial preferences. If the princes* came in (as they almost certainly would in time), the Dominion of India would become a mighty anchor in the storms that might ravage postwar Asia...
...researches we outlined required the additional expenditure of several hundred thousand rubles. I went to Sergo Ordzhonikidze, who was chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, put the matter before him, and in ten minutes left his office with an order signed by him to assign the sum I had requested to the Institute. Once started, we have continued work on the atomic nucleus for 15 years as an essential part of our plan...