Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was true even before Tom Dewey was nominated and took over the controls. State by State, the G.O.P. is under new management. The 26 Republican Governors, in the main, had cast out the old party reactionaries, had freely replaced them with younger, fresher men. In sum, the party that met at Chicago was not the party that had lost three elections to Franklin Roosevelt. Scores and scores of the delegates had never even attended a national G.O.P. convention before...
With beer as the original source of its fortune, the House of Bemberg acquired a near-monopoly of brewing in Argentina, then branched into public utilities, cotton, dairy products, wool and yerba mate (Paraguay tea). Sum total of the family fortune was anyone's guess, for the Bembergs kept their mouths shut. Hostile estimates ran as high as a billion dollars...
...sum it up, as my guide said when he saw the picture before showing it to me, 'Who-ee, I hope I never meet up with that...
...which Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote to members of his family and to his onetime publishing partner, Charles L. Webster.* They often show Twain at his worst-techy, cussed, filled with distrust of his fellows, a domineering egotist. They also often show him in full comical steam. In sum, they make the difficult man a more understandable genius...
...humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry greater praise in the accolade: 'I am an American...