Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply a matter of distributing the loose change in the National Treasury, the idea would appeal to the sympathetic generosity of the American people. Even 300 millions might seem to come under this head--a judicious stoppage of the leaks in the income tax might easily account for this sum. Unfortunately the Soldiers' Bonus bill now before the Senate fails--despite Senator McCumber's optimism--to confine itself within these modest limits. If we are to believe Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the payments for the first two years will come to at least 850 millions. Past experience has shown...
Again the student debauchee is not truly wasting his sum and substance--but only taking that form of recreation in his idle moments which he rightly believes is the greatest relaxation known to mankind, the greatest aid to forgetting the intricate problems of the calculus and government that so occupied his powers of concentration but an hour before. To get the most out of yourself in working hours, you must get the most into yourself in hours of relaxation. Complete oblivion in relaxation at its apex...
...need its services get them only in proportion as these others give. It goes without saying that the Red Cross is performing an indispensible work. It is shouldering an added burden at present in caring for disabled veterans--once heroes, now neglected invalids. It asks only a small sum, but on this depends the health and happiness of many. You can answer the roll call in Widener Library...
...result of the collection which the University Band took yesterday afternoon at the football rally at the Stadium, $173 was procured, bringing the total to $715. This sum is sufficient to take forty players on the trip, thus allowing for a full orchestration...
...sum given the University is two-fifths of the aggregate bequests in the evil. Although no action has yet been taken by University officials, it is presumed that the money will go to the University Cancer Commission, founded in the for the investigation of the cause and the treatment of cancer. This commission carries on work in the laboratories of the Medical School, and at the Collies P. Huntington Memorial Hospital. The present chairman of the Cancer Commission is Dr. R. B. Greenough '92, who is also Surgeon in Charge of the Huntington Hospital...