Word: summing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sum, their messages are incoherent, self-canceling and wildly contradictory. But their common purpose is the big smear. With a calculated appeal to the varying prejudices of their intended readers, they portray Ike in bewildering succession as a Roman Catholic, a sick man, a Jew, a warmonger, a white supremacist, a coddler of Negro troops, a tool of Russia, a lackey of Wall Street, a front for New Dealers and a pal of Joe Stalin...
Sailing is of course one of springtime's major sports. Most people haven't got a private yacht moored at Marblehead or even a battered dinghy hidden in some cove along the Charles, but enthusiasts can procure membership in the Harvard Yacht Club for the paltry sum of five dollars. After passing a boat-handling test, the expert can sail to his heart's content almost any afternoon from the M.I.T. boathouse, thanks to an agreement whereby Harvard men may use Tech's dinghies...
...your able editors the sum of $1 that the next President of the U.S. will be bald-headed...
...sum, Rome and, a Villa is a brilliant piece of traveler's impressionism, written with verbal polish. Though it will mean more to people who have visited Rome, the book can still excite those who have not; it summons up, like a good translation, the spirit of the original...
...report given in March 1915, Pickering stated. "The Observatory is not known chiefly for the size of its telescopes or for the beauty of its buildings, but the addition it has made to the sum of human knowledge in its particular department of science has been equaled by no other institution of its kind in the United States and by few in the world. Our equipment is the best." Throughout Pickering's time the study of the physical properties of the stars was paramount...