Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University were 600 times smaller, or if Widener Library were 600 times larger, Thomas B. Pitman '14 would have had nothing to do in 1936. But circumstances favored Pitman: Harvard then commissioned him to construct the world's smallest university. For the modest sum of $40,000, he did indeed build it a perfect reproduction of its financier now on permanent display on the main floor of Widener...
...have just read "Sir Anthony Eden: The Man Who Waited" [April 11 ]. Please accept my congratulations for this fine and straightforward résumé of Sir Anthony's career. It ought to be read by all concerned in the study of British political and diplomatic developments...
...Sum-Up of 2,000 Years. Almost overnight, the Swiss patent clerk became the world's most famous scientist. Universities competed for him, and in 1912 he became a professor at the famed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. In 1915 Einstein expanded his theory into the General Theory of Relativity...
...last moment slipped ?600 sterling into my pocket." On such a pittance, asked his interviewer, how had Farouk managed to live so high since getting the dirty end of the Nile in 1952? Replied Farouk: "A great chief of Islam came to my help with a noticeable sum . . . Unfortunately, that good man died two years ago and my situation has become extremely critical." Then Farouk asked his interviewer for introductions to be arranged with some Italian tycoons who might give him a job. A titled industrialist was apprised of Farouk's plight, thought it over, decided that...
...Vatican granted permission. Since then, the project has achieved proportions that Fathers Daly and Donnelly never dreamed of. At first they thought the cost of filming would be about $50,000, soon found that the figure would come to at least five times that amount. By last week the sum was up into the millions: St. Louis was not only going to have copies of the Vatican's treasures; it would also have a $4,500,000 Pope Pius XII Memorial Library to house them. Treasure Hunt. When Daly and Donnelly first settled down to work in 1951, they...