Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...including Baker Library. In 1925 he added an extra $1,000,000 to his gift when it appeared the original $5,000,000 was going to run out, and in 1948 an additional $500,000 was received from Baker's estate to keep facilities up to date. Still another sum was given by the Baker family last year in connection with the drive to match the Rockefeller...
That seemed to sum up the presidential reaction. But when he was asked to elaborate on his personal feelings in the matter, he finally launched into an unusually detailed extension of remarks...
...sum total of the conference added up to something like a religious experience for many of them. Its organizer, president and precocious patriarch, pole-tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Smith Jameson Jones Jr., who at 22 is already an important figure in U.S. Methodism, did his best to put it into words. "The very size of the conference makes it wonderful for them. Back home they're bobby-soxers, maybe not too interested in the church. For one week they are transformed...
...geography professor at Yale, Stephen B. Jones, spent three long evenings reviewing a manuscript for a New York publishing house. He got a check for $15. The sum, said the publishers, could only suggest their gratitude. "I had given them the best advice and comment I could . . . and for about a dollar and a half an hour," said Professor Jones. "I mailed back the check with a letter saying I. would appreciate one that equaled their gratitude instead of merely suggesting it." (The publishers eventually sent...