Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spending of that prodigious sum in the U. S. for War supplies was the biggest single event in the annals of U. S. Labor...
...gift of this large sum of money is an example of the present tendency of generous benefactors definitely to stipulate for what particular purposes this money is to be used. One recalls the recent donations to Vassar, the University of Michigan, and, overtopping them all in generosity, that of eleven million dollars to Harvard University to establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results...
...Radcliffe College, the Directors of the Fogg Art Museum, the Chairman of the Division of Fine Arts and such others as these five may select. The holders are eligible for reappointment in case such re-appointment may seem desirable. If in any year, no suitable candidates appear, the sum available is to be set aside in a separate fund, which may be used to help the Harvard University Press, defray expenses incurred in publishing Fogg Art Museum publications and the work produced by any of the Shady Hill Research Fellows...
That little sum, nonetheless, was a fine accolade to the oldest national free tuberculosis hospital in the U. S. Jews built it in 1890 when their co-religionists emigrated in waves from their Polish villages to contract consumption in Manhattan's crowded slums. Now the hospital, supported mainly by Jews, has non-Jews on its staff and among its patients...
Fees that U. S. builders pay their architects each year total not less than $80,000,000. Of that sum architects by unorderly conduct of their business waste perhaps $8,000,000. If queried on the wastage, an architect would doubtless explain that he is too concerned for the needs of his client to be careful of his own expenditures...