Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present departure is the natural outcome of a decision made last June to abandon the accustomed contribution to the New England Student Work of the Y. M. C. A. In the past the Phillips Brooks House has contributed annually the sum of $200. to this work and since a considerable portion of the money thus raised by the Y. M. C. A. has been used to defray the extra expenses of the Northfield Conference the absence of an officially designated delegation is a logical step in the sequence of events...
...Story. Escaped from board school, with three Shakespeare plays as the sum of his knowledge, Edgar Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper...
Meanwhile the two U. S. Dollars rolled merrily along on motive power furnished by many a U. S. Dime. For Lawyer Chadbourne and Jobless Swope, officially designated as representatives of U. S. shareholders in British G. E., had ceremoniously assessed each shareholder whose authorization they carried the sum of 10? per share to pay expenses of the journey...
Donors of the manuscript were Trustees George Willets Davison (Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan) and Albert W. Johnston. To procure it Trustee Davison had sent his bank's Berlin representatives to Frau Einstein with an offer to buy. Frau and Dr. Einstein, having no other offers, sold (sum unmentioned). They said they would use the money for welfare work among German university students...
...latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street with news that Wu had committed honorable suicide; and then before long there...