Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half of his body. He is also exceedingly kindly, and because of his charitable efforts on behalf of two unprofitable British professions has been nicknamed "Prince of Beggars" and "The Midwife's Friend." He is an excellent specimen - almost too good, in days when figureheads are taken to sum up their societies-out of the top drawer of British nobility. A huntin', shootin', fishin' county gentleman, he is not unlike Cartoonist David Low's ultra-ultra-conservative Colonel Blimp. When he left London for his new post, his most edifying remark was to some fellow...
...stud, Bahram's blood lines were important to British racing. But last month, when the Nazis confiscated the French branch of the Aga Khan's fabulous stable, the Indian potentate, stranded on a Swiss Alp (TIME, Aug. 19), decided to sell his priceless Bahram-for a sum close to a quarter of a million dollars...
...through Congress last week, but stalled temporarily behind Conscription, were bills upping to $3,259,000,000 the funds voted or requested so far this year for the U. S. Navy. This respectable sum was only a down payment. Before the Navy which the U. S. now has on order can be completed, equipped and manned, Congress will have to dig up at least $7,000,000,000 more...
Symbolized by this puppet Pauline was the bulk of last week's "popular" opposition to conscription. Among the articulate minorities which frightened Congress were many sincere, substantial, respected groups. But in sum they made as weird a hash as was ever dumped on Washington...
...distilling their own hard liquor without paying excise to the Government. By decree the Petain Government achieved what other Governments had un successfully attempted since 1789. It outlawed home distilling, thereby in theory checking the scourge of alcoholism, reducing the contraband liquor trade and bringing a tidy excise sum into the national treasury...