Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress, for its part, is likely to take a dim view of both reports, since both call for programs that imply the spending of more money than the President has asked in his 1958 budget-and this sum ($4.4 billion), Capitol Hill statesmen already have made clear, is more than most Congressmen intend to grant...
Amid the heady sentimentalities scheduled for Carnegie Hall this Friday, the University will open its campaign for what President Pusey has called "the largest sum ever sought for the support of higher education." With its extensive requirements for the expansion of the College's physical plant and teaching facilities, the President's Program will no doubt determine the direction of Harvard's evolution through the next several decades. Yet in the midst of all the impending plenty of this Great Educational Barbecue, the President's comprehensive recommendations seem to have glossed over one small but significant area of long-time...
...Foundation allotted $77,000 to the University for research in the behavioral sciences. Part of this sum was tabbed for research efforts on models for learning, and studies on imagination and learning...
Take any copy of the 1960 Radcliffe Freshman Register. Examine it and you will find that there are 17 complete pages of 16 snapshots on each page. Each participant contributes a dollar, or some other agreed-upon sum, into the pool to enter. Then he chooses a page in the Register. The game starts on a certain date agreed upon in advance. To win the game, the contestant must date, on Friday or Saturday nights, four girls in a line, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. These dates must include the hours from 8 to 11 p.m., and be verified...
...article "Anastasia", regarding the alleged fortune deposited in England by the late Czar Nicholas of Russia. In July 1917 Alexander Kerensky, the revolutionary Prime Minister, declared that "all rumors regarding the fortune of the Czar abroad is a baseless legend." Actually, what started this legend was the enormous sums in gold rubles deposited in England by the Russian Imperial government during the first World War to cover purchases for ammunition. This sum was frozen by the British government after the Communists seized power. These funds, of course, had nothing to do with the private fortune of the imperial family...