Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the walls hung a special exhibit of 66 canvases (the museum has some 800 in all) representing most of the important schools of 17th-, 18th-, 19th-and 20th-century painting, with a scattering from earlier periods. In sum, the Atheneum's interests over the years pretty well reflected a century of U.S. taste and curiosity...
When he began his translations, Jerome was already a master of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. To understand the Hebrew Scripture more thoroughly, he hired local rabbis (as he complained, "for no small sum of money") to explain difficult passages-especially the Book of Job. With a good feeling both for Latin and Hebrew, his translation steered the difficult middle course between a literal and a figurative interpretation...
...NFME combines this up to date diagnosis with a horse and buggy cure. Medical schools need forty million dollars. To stave off the dreaded day of government intervention, the National Fund has asked corporations to donate the sum in chunks of five million dollars a year...
Recently the 25th year gift has been increased, and the Class of '26 last June gave $160,000--all of it raised through the Harvard Fund. Such gifts are capitalized for scholarships and undergraduate instruction. As the money is being raised, the College uses the interest on on the sum, usually about...
...School's new expansion program has gotten off to a good start by gifts and grants totaling over one million dollars. This sum has come primarily from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Keppel decided early in the planning that the School should try to carry out the new program over at least a six-year period, and that new support should simultaneously be sought to continue the activities after that time. Approximately four million dollars, it was estimated, would be needed to provide for new professorships and more scholarships, while estimates...