Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold, and that the amount I recommended for my own contract was so small that the others concerned insisted on raising it. The same thing happened in the case of a recent confidential Army & Navy survey where the total amount involved was $100,000, where most of this sum was in separate contracts with consultants, and where the amount I proposed to charge was so low that it was raised in Washington...
...such circumstances a soldier's temper is understandably short. Scores of the troops have spoken their minds to U.S. war correspondents. The sum of their abrupt observations has been that they have lost faith in the veracity of U.S. radio and in the U.S. press. In sectors where Britain's BBC can be heard, U.S. soldiers in general prefer its plain, unvarnished news commentaries to the high-pressure American product...
...stockmarket, as the sum total of many bets on the future, almost always anticipates (and frequently overanticipates) good or bad news. Last week, when Italy finally threw in the towel, the market took the good news in traditional style: it went down. But the drop, two-thirds of a point on the Dow-Jones industrial average, was picayune compared to the threeday, 6½-point nose dive that followed the fall of Mussolini last July, and was more than made up in the next day's trading...
...comedy, Mr. Lucky is the successful sum of timeless Hollywood formulas and two new ones. The old twists...
...years the carving of that memorial was imminent. Eighteen years ago Jerome Connor pocketed a substantial advance sum for the work from the memorial committee in New York* and went off to his Dublin studio to get busy. And then Jerome Connor's evanescence began to manifest itself...