Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, Robert W. DuBose '55 asked the Council to lend the League a sum of money "which will be used to nourish and further a group that has ideas and standards which will be of great benefit to the students of Harvard University." The foregoing remarks were made public in a letter to the Student Council...
...accounts to brokers. By spending $45,000 on advertising, Merrill Lynch grabbed off 40% of the new investors (4,411 accounts), now sees a booming market in such areas as San Antonio, Omaha, Indianapolis and Detroit. One small company opened five accounts at the maximum monthly sum of $999 because it found the plan an excellent way to bank surplus funds and collect attractive dividends; another investor opened a $40-a-month account because he said he threw away that much money each month, wanted to discipline himself...
...have got to look at each of these in its proper perspective ... to understand what the whole sum total means. And remember this: the reason they are feared and bad is because there is a little element of truth in each, a little element of danger in each, and that means that finally there is left a little residue that you can meet only by faith, a faith in the destiny of America...
...Paola, who now has the money, agreed last night that "the best thing to do is to return it." But "some of the original sum was spent to print notices for the Society's first meeting," he asserted...
Hampered by Puritan prudery, the early presidents like the Reverend Increase Mather imposed what now appear to be ludicrous regulations. For lying, a student would be fined one shilling, a good sum. But for eating plum cake, students would be fined 20 shillings! Somehow, Mather had gotten the notion that eating plum cake was an abomination unto the Lord. His regulation, furthermore, was religiously upheld by the authorities until just before the Revolution, and naturally enough, caused students to sneak plum cake more than ever. Student complaints about the food in general never ceased...