Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mine owners were not unsympathetic, but pointed out that, as their industry is to a great extent run on borrowed capital and therefore has high interest charges to meet, they cannot afford to increase the level of wages, despite the fact that the total sum involved for the entire industry is something less than $100,000, unless they raise the cost to the consumer, and this the government, which controls mining, will not let them...
...given the great sum? John Davison Rockefeller Jr., John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne (lawyer, onetime of Chicago, now of Manhattan) and the Carnegie Corporation had already donated money for similar, although piecemeal excavations in Greece. Certainly Mr. Woods,* although rich, had no millions to give away. But he would not say. Professor Capps said only: "I do not know who the donor is. I might guess, but I might be wrong...
...foundation of the Integraph is a watthour meter of the same type as is commonly used in homes for recording electric power Integration is merely a mathematical way of expressing the sum of a series of numbers which vary according to a given equation. The mathematician, in using the machine to do away in an afternoon with months of calculating, plots equations on paper which is passed slowly under pointers in the 35-foot apparatus: Operators stationed along the length of the machine keep the pointers on the curves, and as these pointers move up and down, the power flowing...
...week. Journalist's discovered that the $5,000 which had just dropped into her lap would be applied to the needs of the Civic Repertory Theatre which has just opened its second season. The $5,000 had dropped into her lap from the Pictorial Review, which bestows the sum annually upon "the outstanding American woman* of the year...
Tickets will be issued at a nominal sum of about $.75, and may be obtained in advance by mail from the Union, the money to be enclosed by all except Union members, who will be charged...