Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporate profits taxes, but it is now suing for a complete refund of approximately $490,000 on the ground that "Plaintiff is exempt as a church" and that "all property [is] subject to the control of the Pope." The Department of Justice has filed a counterclaim for an additional sum in back taxes...
...auctioneer, "a man for sale for four hours or a day or a night." Someone bid $50. "But this is a man,'' pleaded the auctioneer. "You can't just bid 50-he weighs more than that." The bids went to $55, $250, $300. At the sum of $350 Auctioneer Leonard Bernstein brought his gavel down; thus was Actor Richard Burton, the star of Camelot, acquired by Elsa Maxwell...
Contemporary American music sometimes sounds as if it were written on an electronic computer: the arithmetic adds up, but every sum sounds the same. Last week U.S. audiences were introduced to the recent works of five U.S. composers whose figuring, however it comes out, is at least distinctive. The five and their formulas...
...only 70,000 a year; teachers' salaries are deplorably low and the profession has been unable to attract an adequate number of men and women to handle the increasing school population. The Kennedy Administration must ask for an annual Federal expenditure of $30 per pupil, and add to this sum another $20 per pupil in those low-income states which have very little of their own money to spend on education. The total cost each year would be around $1.4 billion, higher than last year's most ambitious proposal, the Murray-Metcalf bill...
...egomet sum ille!' exclamavit...