Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON article states that Allston Burr of the Class of 1889 has left an unrestricted gift of $1,500,000 to the University. If converted into dollar bills and laid end to end, this sum would stretch from Cambridge to somewhere south of Hartford on the Wilbur Cross Highway. If used more intelligently, the income would pay all the expenses for the Harvard education of 15 men a year. Otherwise, the sum might by put into the running endowment to lower the tuition or the room and board bills, or to renew such institutions as the training table. It could...
...Because of these two events, although we are a nonprofit organization with little money to spend on advertising, we decided, in fear and trembling, to take an advertisement in TIME for $4,070. We had never spent even half that sum on a single advertisement, but we reasoned that if TIME readers were such generous people the ad could not do otherwise than...
...numbers man who works through one of the organized syndicates gets about 15 percent of the difference between the amount bet with him and the amount won by his customers. If the month's winnings are greater than the sum he has collected, the agent works without any cut until the difference between money bet and won makes up for the previous loss...
...though it is, the British economy is still the second most productive industrial machine in the Western world. It is as superior to the wrecked or backward economies of France and Germany as ours is to it ... Britain's economy is still predominantly private, autonomous and unpredictable, the sum of many individual business decisions just...
...last the government put a price on Visa's head. It spent 500 rupees a day trying to track him down with horses, jeeps and machine guns. This month, it spread a rumor that a large sum of money was being kept in the forester's office in a village deep in the heart of the Gir Forest. When Visa and his band dashed into the village, they were caught in ambush, and Visa and three henchmen were killed. In triumph the police laid out the bodies before the unhappy villagers, and took them to the bank...