Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover also reported that over $600,000 had already been raised by the Massachusetts State Committee toward their goal of one million dollars. The National Council has passed well beyond the fifteen million dollar mark on its way to the sum of thirty-five million dollars, which is enough to sustain the three and a half million starving children till the next harvest...
...Europe are greatly suffering this winter because they lack food, fuel and clothing. For the future, of Europe, these students should stay at their studies. You and I can make this possible. We need to assist each student, on the average, to the extent of ten dollars, a total sum of one million dollars...
...effects of time, Lockoff sought and obtained a commission from the Moscow Museum to accomplish this work. The war interrupted his labors and since the Bolshevists have controlled the government he has become greatly in need of financial aid. The Fogg Art Museum lately succeeded in raising the sum necessary to purchase one of his completed frescos, which was shipped to this country in two large sections. Its position in the museum allows a far better inspection of it than is possible of the original as the light in the chapel is very...
...sum up the present consequences of the idiotic rules:--Instead of football's fundamental feature, rushing and passing, being used to gain ground, we have forward passing. Games may be won only by forward passing, or fumbling. The game requires masses of opposing players to meet at a point running at full speed in opposite directions and is therefore dangerous to life and limb. The game has become commercialized and so dominated by paid coaches that they oppose any changes which might interfere with their vested interests...
...Henry peartree, one of the founders and a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in France, has donated to the Chamber the sum of 10,000 francs as a prize fund, to be distributed in equal shares this year and next, for the best essay or treatise on the subject of "Toleration," economic, political or religious. All members of the University are eligible for this prize...