Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overseers and released to the CRIMSON last night Pusey did not mention the exact figure he is seeking in the drive--to be called "A Program for Harvard College"--but it is known that the figure will be in excess of $40 million, and probably more than twice that sum...
...Pusey at the opening of what promises to be the largest fund drive in Harvard history seem particularly apt. From its inception in 1636 to today's announcement, Harvard has been attempting to perfect itself, sometimes in one direction, sometimes in another, sometimes actively, sometimes not. But in the sum total of these movements lies the story of Harvard's growth from a small college in a cow pasture into one of the great universities of the modern world...
...other years when the kinship was military, the numbers were millions, and the place names were London, Bizerte, Palermo, Salerno, Normandy and Bastogne. Probably no man in public life today has touched so many people in so many different ways as Dwight David Eisenhower. Yet, strangely, it is the sum total of Dwight Eisenhower's 66 years that is still news in election year 1956, for in his role of President-Candidate he is so completely absorbed and absorbing that the thousands who see and cheer him tend to forget that he ever really played any other...
...again. This time he won; in 1929 Birdseye. who now had powerful backers, sold his General Seafoods Corp. and 168 quick-freeze patents to the Postum Co. (later renamed General Foods) and the Goldman-Sachs Trading Corp. for $22 million. Said Birdseye proudly: "That was, I believe, the largest sum ever paid for a patent in this country...
Thus Austrian Author Lernet-Holenia, 59, himself patrician-born and a former officer of the Imperial Austrian Army, elliptically describes how a ruling class shorn of its power can be startled by phantoms and into fantasies. Yet, in sum, his talent is special, minor, and eccentric -fit literary fare perhaps only for devotees of what might be called seance fiction...