Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure with magical qualities bordering on the occult. This number is most potent during the summer months. Turning zealous vacation workers into loafers, it makes honest students throw over well-paying jobs a good month before school would make them quit. The number is, of course, the sum a student may carn before he is no longer a deductable item on his guardian's income tax but becomes, himself, another prop to the national debt...
...conjunction with Menzel's appointment it was disclosed that the Corporation has provided a sum of $150,000 for the modernization of the Agassiz observatory and a like sum for improvements at the Cambridge site. Plans call for erection of a modern office building on the site formerly occupied by the original frame building in Cambridge...
Governor Capper of Kansas not only pardoned him but apologized and paid him a suitable sum of money for every day he was incarcerated, and I sent him to his home in Guanajuato, where he bought a farm and lived happily ever after...
...dismantled stone by stone, and shipped (in 35,000 pieces weighing 2,500 tons) to the U.S. It cost Hearst more than half a million dollars and ten years of effort to get his treasure home. By that time, even Hearst was reluctant to spend the additional sum it would cost to rebuild the monastery on his San Simeon estate. Instead, he stored it in a warehouse in The Bronx, and there Sacramenia's monastery languished, one of the most monumental white elephants in art history...
...Disabled American Veterans collected $21,480,000 over a period of three years with a series of splashy contests and a campaign to flood the mails with unsolicited trinkets. Out of this sum, the expenses of the fund-raisers amounted to $14,529,000, "administrative costs" ate up another $2,400,000, and $3,837,000 more went for D.A.V. lobbying. Not a cent went for the direct aid of a needy veteran. The D.A.V. does maintain 1,800 local chapters, which help veterans, for example, with their claims against the Government...