Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under which all students would pay a slightly higher price for room and board. Girls in need of extra money might wait on tables for a small but reasonable salary. Consequently, the system would create a new area of student employment, in which several girls could make a substantial sum of money each year. The program would also free those who dislike waiting-on and would institute a relatively small, regular staff of waitresses willing to put in the time and effort required...
...example of the 13 American colonies," joined forces last November, scarcely a month had passed since Guinea cut itself loose from France. To Nkrumah, the union seemed an auspicious first step toward an eventual United States of Africa, and he promised a $28 million loan. Of this sum, $11 million has been paid-half of it just before Nkrumah's arrival. Otherwise, the union has been largely talk. Touré, the junior partner, has been moving off in some alarming directions...
Preparation, the "sure thing" versus the risk, is causing much of the grief in admissions circles today. For one thing, an unerring relationship between academic ability and the ability to score well on College Board Tests has never been satisfactorily established. The Predicted Rank List, which tries to sum up ability and motivation, is by no means infallibile, since Group IV PRL entrants have gone on to receive Magnas, and vice versa. Although an applicant will probably never stand or fall on Predicted Rank List alone, the trend is to lop off applicants on the very lowest range of ability...
...final attempt to salvage its opening season, Repertory Boston, Inc., has appealed to "sympathetic members of the Boston theatre-going public" to pledge financial support in the amount of $50,000. This sum would be necessary to maintain operations for the rest of Repertory's season...
...decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services in 1965. Five years after that, in 1970, the well-heeled consumer will be spending at the rate of $436 billion a year-a sum equal to the entire U.S. gross national product last year...