Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembered chiefly as the eccentric and faintly embarrassing author of two throbbing poems, the boomlay-booming Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Yet 15 years earlier, few had doubted that he was a genius. Author Eleanor Ruggles (Prince of Players: Edwin Booth) avoids outright judgment, but the sum of her sympathetic, somewhat sentimental biography seems correct: Lindsay was less than a major poet, but considerably more than a quaint Illinois versifier...
...United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has awarded a $1,369,460 matching grant to the school of Public Health for construction in mid-1960 of a nine-story research building (shown above). "The matching grant" stipulates that the institution match the sum, dollar for dollar...
...School first conceived of the project when the Rockefeller Foundation gave it a large sum for "construction purposes." Since then, a "quiet campaign" has raised almost enough money to equal the government gift...
...exploded Ford, banging his fist on the inlaid mahogany table. Larry Lindemer is doing a first-rate job, and if Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party paid its bills. In the angry exchange. Ford recalled Sum-merfield's generalship of the Michigan delegation at the 1952 convention, his slowness in moving from Taft to Eisenhower. his warning to Ford at the time: "If you interfere with this, I'll drag you through the streets of Detroit...
...tries to follow some of the most obscurely motivated characters in any literature. The Hamlet (TIME, April i, 1940) and The Town (TIME, May 6, 1957) proved that the Snopeses were never far from Faulkner's mind even as he was writing other books that in sum won him the Nobel Prize...