Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sum Haul. In Montreal, two thugs strongarmed Grocer Argiro Telefougiou into a back room, then got away with an adding machine they thought was a cash register...
Columnist JOSEPH ALSOP : IT is perfect nonsense, in fact, to talk of these 1958 results in terms of a gigantic, irresistible tidal wave. What looked like a tidal wave was first of all the sum of a long series of local Republican choices of candidates obviously likely to repel the maximum number of votes. Wherever the Democrats committed comparable follies, as they did here and there, they also suffered...
...billion that U.S. airlines will spend by 1962 on 400 new jetliners and improved ground facilities, American will plunk down $440 million, by far the biggest sum of any airline, become the first to shift its line completely to jets. American has ordered $365 million worth of new planes to be delivered by 1962: 25 Boeing 707s for long-distance flights, 25 shorter-range Boeings, 35 Lockheed Electra turboprops for short hops, and 25 Convair 600s, which, if the plane lives up to its billing, will be the world's fastest commercial jet (635 m.p.h...
...three Council members appointed two weeks ago as a committee to investigate the charges of "illegal procedure" and corrupt election practices involved in the NSA referendum reported that they acknowledged "infractions in some of the Houses, but felt that the sum total was not enough to warrant a College-wide re-vote...
...home and school both ways. But he insists now: "It wasn't organized athletics-most of my exercise came from hard work, and I had plenty of that." He got much of it in the form of odd jobs, for as much as 25? an hour (a princely sum for a boy during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes), plus helping his father to mow and cradle hay in the summer...