Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are other compensations, some of them strange. Now that he is a celebrity expecting a large sum of money, a cab driver, a tailor and a restaurant have refused to take anything at all in payment for their services. From his savings, Van Doren has splurged mildly on clothes and an extra round of Christmas gifts for his family. The only whim he plans to indulge is to replace his 1948 Studebaker with a 190 SL Mercedes-Benz. He will probably invest the rest of the money...
...sum, the Collins message to both sides was the same: in order to find wise solutions, the whites must "face up to the fact that the Negro does not now have equal opportunities, that he is morally and legally entitled to progress more rapidly, and that a full good faith effort" must be made to help him lift his standards. Similarly, Negroes must contribute by changes in their own attitudes, e.g., by realizing that they "must merit and deserve whatever place [they] achieve in a community . . . There must be change, and change usually comes hard . . . Ours is the generation...
...present tuition increase will provide a gross gain of $580,000 in Princeton's income. A third of this sum, however, must be allocated to the scholarship program, so the increase will not force any student to leave for financial reasons. The university anticipates a net of $400,000 from the hike...
...Jones industrial average. Actually, the Dow-Jones is not a dollar average at all, but a point average. Dow statisticians calculate it by totaling the per-share value of 30 prime industrial stocks (among them: Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel), then dividing the sum by a "constant divisor" which they adjust to account for stock splits. Currently, the divisor stands at 4.566, meaning that each point in the average is equal to $1 divided by 4.566, or about 22?. Thus, a 6-point jump is only about $1.32 in actual dollar value, a fact some amateurs learn...
...basis of having provided three direct benefits for the students: the Extension of House parietal hours to midnight on Saturday, the initiation of a mid-term vacation, and the institution of the Rides Service, all worthwhile achievements. Unfortunately, the mismanaged reports and the concrete reforms did not constitute the sum of Council activity. There were a number of items on the debit side which can be chalked up largely to the political nature of the body and its own uncertainty as to its powers and functions...