Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prudently carried the Britannica on its books at $1). Result: Bill Benton himself agreed to put up whatever might be needed to keep it going, took an unnamed percentage of the stock from U.C. to back his investment. The university has an option to buy his stock (for the sum he put into it-plus no interest) if the going is good, a further option on the whole works at 42-year-old Bill Benton's death. Meanwhile Benton will devote at least part of his ample talents to making the university's gift...
...sum, this solution for the world's ills fails because of its faulty diagnosis and its naive medication. Wars arise from basic instabilities in men's attempts to satisfy their wants, psychological as well as material. Merely setting up a new super-state, or putting sharp teeth in a thoroughly dead corpse, are hopeless. The "post-war world," if it is to get anywhere, must attack specific problems on a broad scale. Details of organization, beyond the initial agreement to attack the seats of infection, will take care of themselves...
...fiscal year 1944 (beginning next July 1) Franklin Roosevelt figured that the U.S. could spend $104,128,924,923 directly plus $4,774,123,000 more through RFC etc. This was a staggering sum: 1) more than the combined income of all U.S. citizens in any year except 1942; 2) more than the budget of any other nation in any year in all history, past and perhaps future...
...words of excruciating praise for Vice Admiral Sunagawa's victories at sea. The Vice Admiral was then admitted into the inner chamber, where he had a divine audience with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Their Majesties bestowed on Vice Admiral Sunagawa a crested cup and an unmentionably sacred sum of money. The Vice Admiral retired in deep reverence with beads of perspiration on his forehead...
...claim on systems is the same claim. Their writings anticipate each other; welcome each other; indeed embrace. As Lucretius answered Epicurus, Gibbs answers Whitman. . . .") The result is a book frequently verging on the apocalyptical in language; a Moby Dick of a book in intention and intimations, touching on "the sum of things...