Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduate chemist, who had only a small sum of industrial research work before being drafted over a year ago, and who finds his specialized knowledge and training of little value as a soldier in the Army, I feel somewhat qualified to make such a suggestion...
...future, it could take a load off the backs and minds of the Council officers, at no great inconvenience to either the student contributor or to the Lehman Hall bookkeeping departments if a fixed yearly sum could be deducted from individual bank accounts by way of the term bill. Perhaps men in College should willingly accept their responsibility for institutions they have backed, but a slight expansion of effort on the part of the University would be a permanent relief to the Council, and would help the undergraduate acquit this responsibility more painlessly...
...idea if a museum of American archacology and rthnology were established in this country. Peabody, having already intended to give something to Harvard, gathered in the suggestion with open arms, the result being that on October 16, 1866, a deed of trust conveying to a board of trustees the sum of $150,000 for the endowment of a "Museum and Professorship of American Archaeology and Ethnology in connection with Harvard University," was accepted...
...sumé of failure. Briefly, here are the last days of Burma. For the last two months the result of the Burma campaign was almost a foregone conclusion...
...nearly 67% on musical instruments. "In my boyhood I had a chance of being qualified as an oboist," he recalled, "and I should have jumped at it if I could have obtained ?14, which was the price of a second-hand oboe seventy years ago. For want of that sum I was lost to woodwind forever and had to adopt a profession in which the equipment was 6 pennyworth of stationery...