Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King, they insisted, had paid an undisclosed sum in the ordinary way, by check. But the deal was closed, and the local Nassau Daily Review-Star gave its new neighbor a friendly editorial: "Welcome, Farmer King Zog. While Nassau County farmers have been selling their land to live like kings on their real estate profit, along comes...
...malefactors of great wealth." Stoughton turned in his declining years to repairing the reputation he had earlier destroyed. The result was the donation in 1699 of 1,000 pounds to the College for the first edifice in Harvard history to be built through the gift of an alumnus. This sum did not completely cover construction cost, and it was necessary for the College to petition the Massachusetts General Court for the right to use brick from an Indians Coming to study would be domiciled free of charge in the structure. No Redskin ever exercised the privilege until a band...
Gifts to the University last spring totaled less than $3,000,000, as contributions continued to fall below the record sum of $25,000,000 raised in the academic year...
Figures released this week show that $2,838,000 was given to the University during April, May, and June. Of this sum, $1,755,000 was to be added to endowment with one donation amounting to $1,019,000. Given without restriction, the latter gift was an additional section of the 1946 bequest of Henry W. Putnam. The total received from his estate has now passed the $2,000,000 mark...
Figures released this week show that $2,838,000 was given to the University during April, May, and June. Of this sum, $1,755,000 was to be added to endowment with one donation amounting to $1,019,000. Given without restriction, the latter gift was an additional section of the 1946 bequest of Henry W. Putnam. The total received from his estate has now passed the $2,000,000 mark...