Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students wishing to join must pay the club a sum which about covers the cost of checking his and his parents' credit rating with Dun and Bradstreet. This precaution is for the benefit of participating merchants, since the club directors themselves feel that "any kid going to Harvard is all right," treasurer David T. Schwartz '59 said...
...repainting each canvas many times, and producing perhaps a dozen finished pictures a year. These he sells for less than $200 each. They are often resold for ten times his price, but says he, "I would consider it an immoral exploitation if I myself were to accept such a sum...
...Frederick Upcott, chairman of the board of Indian Railways, said that Indians were incapable of making steel, swore to eat every pound of rail produced. When British banks refused to finance the Tatas, they turned to their own people. Shopkeepers and maharajas stood in line to invest the fabulous sum...
Even before Buchwald could sum up, another ad popped up in the Times: "Do you dislike the British? Advertiser would be grateful to hear reasons . . ." Then another: "Would like to hear from anyone who likes Americans and why ..." The first of the ads was placed by BBC TV's topical show Tonight, whose spokesman concluded: "Americans have a commendable liking for the British, or you are more reticent than we British, despite a widespread belief to the contrary." The second ad brought 250 friendly replies to the American Weekend, a weekly published in Frankfurt...
...foreign investors pass up the stock market, buy up large amounts of marks. Said a Dusseldorf banker: "The other day a Norwegian walked in with 2,000,000 DM he had bought and asked us to keep it until the day when it might suddenly become a much larger sum." Throughout the world, foreigners who have bought goods from West Germany are paying their bills with unaccustomed haste to beat any possible revaluation, and sellers to West Germany are letting their debts go in expectation of revaluation profits...