Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each of these men would, throughout his life, have marked as disappointments many lesser things besides the obvious ones that have been here observed. To the ambitious in the best sense of the term, it often, seems that life is an unending series of failures which in the total sum make up success. The higher the goal a man sets before himself the more frequently will he fall short of its attainment, and feel that he has failed when in fact he has accomplished much...
Italy will also be invited to the reparations conference. Premier Mussolini, speaking in the Chamber, outlined Italy's attitude to the reparations problem: 1) Germany must be made to pay a certain sum-by common consent the Allies have fixed the amount at $11,900,000,000. 2) No adjustment must be tolerated that will give any nation political, economic or military hegemony over the rest of Europe. (An intimation that the French will not be allowed to occupy, permanently the Ruhr.) 3) Italy will bear her share of necessary sacrifices in order to facilitate reconstruction of Europe...
Clark University is a New England university located at Worcester, Mass. It has a small college, some famous graduate departments and a president. The college may be deleted from the sum, leaving the famous graduate departments and the president. The fame of the former goes back a great many years; that of the latter is more recent. The great department was that of psychology which, under G. Stanley Hall, achieved international note. There were also well known departments of biology, chemistry, physics, history, social science and education. And in general the university was known for the unselfish spirit of scientific...
...Swan & Finch Co., Union Tank Car Co., Vacuum Oil Co; and the Washington Oil Co. The combined capitalization of these companies is $957,843,750, but as it has until very recently been the policy of Standard Oil to undercapitalize, its actual resources are considerably in excess of this sum. Within the last few months there has been a tendency to increase capital stock by capitalizing the large surpluses that have accumulated, probably with a view to avoiding new corporate taxes and to secure wide stock distribution. An idea of the size of the surpluses is given by the fact...
...there are really three stages to modern education: elementary, wherein one learns permanently important details, like the sum of two and two; the training of the intellect, begun in the efforts to pass the college boards and continued in the similar effort to pass divisionals; and lastly, the second era of facts and theories of lasting importance--the professional schools...