Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as the news reached our town that James A. Garfield had been chosen President I went to my father and told him the result indicated we were to continue a Republican administration and with that prospect in view I was able to secure the advance of the sum I had asked...
...capable cast headed by Norman Trevor and Mrs. Thomas Whiffen demonstrates the author's thesis with keen conviction. Yet probably the most valuable feature of the proceedings is the author's observant photography of the vast sum of little things that go to make up life in an upper middle class family of the Middle West...
...others; and it will no doubt be of great satisfaction to everyone to know that if he dies before his policy is fully paid up, the college nevertheless receives the full amount. Nay, he even does the University a service by dying as Quickly as possible, since the whole sum begins to draw interest sooner in such a case; and moreover, he saves money himself. The Class Committee, has of course, no intention of urging men to die immediately after paying their first premium, but it can be readily seen that from a financial point of view this would...
Altogether, this plan makes certain whatever sum is subscribed originally by the members of the Class, if the premiums are paid; and it ought to be possible to form in the first few years out of college a good habit of paying premiums regularly which will last the rest of the twenty-five. It is not necessary to point out what every graduate owes to the University every graduate best knows that himself. But it is difficult to imagine any method of paying this debt more conveniently or more equitably than by the endowment insurance plan. It is about...
...said that Josef Stansky former conductor for the Philharmonic orchestra of New York, who had become the chief conductor of the Wagnerian company, likewise lost a considerable sum which he had advanced to keep the troupe going...