Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married Flirts jumbles familiarly about with wives and husbands who will not stay firmly married. Two wives and two husbands are shuffled back and forth with no particular success as entertainment. Pauline Frederick is included to bolster up an obviously weak narrative. The sum total is singularly meagre...
Again the generous gesture, the truly diplomatic move, the spirit of friendliness with which John Hay, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, finding the sum of the indemnity awarded in excess of legitimate claims, returned the balance in the form of a similar fund for Chinese students...
...extreme precautions would be necessary to prevent freezing of radiators and engines. A forced landing in the frozen wilds would mean certain death. Success would have little value. Fleeting observations of magnetic action, a rough sketch map of hastily observed and barren, ice-covered areas would be the sum total of results. "Is the game worth it?" queried close students of aeronautics...
...sum up the battle, an apt remark was overhead as the crowd left the Stadium: "I have never seen a worse team and a better one on the field at the same time...
When the treaty of peace between the U. S. and Germany was signed in 1921, the U. S. claimed damages from Germany to the extent of $1,479,000,000. This sum was subsequently whittled down by the U. S.-German Mixed Claims Commission to a little over $400,000,000, for which sum security to the value of $245,000,000 is said to be held. The difference between these two sums is likely therefore to become a charge against Germany. As the Mixed Claims Commission has not yet disposed of all of the claims, no precise figures...