Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subscribers who are not directly engaged in business) and for faster reading, the Journal uses a unique six-column format, plays the news in a way opposite to most dailies: spot news stories usually run on inside pages, while Page One is given over to national and world news sum maries, interpretive and feature stories, all occupying the same places from day to day, e.g., daily Page One leaders range chattily (as they did last week) from Europe's motel boom to building trends in hospitals and supermarkets. Barney Kilgore has reluctantly expanded the Journal from an average...
...other, they had formed themselves into the Ahmedabad Jain Temple Priests Trade Union. From temple committees they demanded: an $8 minimum monthly wage, one day off a week, seven days' paid sick leave a year, three weeks' paid vacation annually, and the payment of a lump sum to a priest when he retires, or to his family if he dies in harness...
...area of a circle. By using tables of squared numbers,* the Mesopotamians learned to multiply without the use of an abacus. Pythagoras, who was the leader of a secret mathematical and religious sect, stated his famous theorem about right triangles (the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides). After him came even greater names: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, who estimated the circumference of the earth (about 24,000 miles), and Hipparchus, who anticipated the modern tables of sines. But to many Greeks, mathematics was also a game. They were the first...
...added burden on last year's budget was a sum of $8000 for three years' back taxes on membership fees. In previous years, the Coop had claimed that the fees were an untaxable "contribution to capital," not to be considered as income. This year, the directors decided to avoid counsels' fees and interest and pay what the government demanded...
...sum collected was especially disappointing, Abramson said, because $3000 was by far the largest amount pledged since 1950-51, when students were last permitted to put contributions on their term bills. Even in last year's total, only $500 was in pledges, and of this, fully half was collected...