Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cassatt '27 and C. G. T. Lundell '27, has been appointed to investigate the possibilities of such a plan. Upon the report of this committee to the Student Council, it may well decide whether or not to support the plan, and if this is decided upon favorably, the sum total of the budget should be changed accordingly...
...sum of the incidental expenses itemized above is $15,000. With the possible inclusion of the fund for the summer camp, this would be raised to $20,000. It may be advisable, in the opinion of this committee to start the figure at the latter figure whether the camp is approved of not, while on the other hand it seems exceedingly dubious policy to give such a new venture as this too high a goal. This is a matter which should properly be left to the discretion of the Student Council, or to that of the Finance Committee which will...
...sum of 300 million lire was appropriated by a Cabinet order last week to be employed upon public works in the picturesque but badly run down Sicilian city of Palermo...
...best." There is no best. Nor is the prize money much help to the writer that has received it. It comes to him only after he has achieved some major success; and to give a man $1,000 for a novel that has probably earned fifty times that sum makes one think of John D. Rockefeller's way of rewarding policemen, children and employes with new silver dimes. Mr. Lewis did quite well to throw his dime away...
...Line cost them not a cent. Nevertheless the Dollars wanted to own the boats, offered last fall $600,000 for each of the five (they cost $6,000,000 each when built during the War). They were rebuffed. So they raised their offer to $900,000 a ship, a sum pleasing to the Board, which accepted a deposit...