Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Randall, "offered some complaint about cutting into their incomes. 'We still list $100 funerals, but we can't make any money on that kind of business,' one explained. ... A florist . . . voiced the most pointed complaint. 'You [ministers],' he said, 'want to take this sum that is to be saved and use it for your own purposes. You ought to consider if there aren't other ways in which you can derive income from funerals without interfering with our business...
...direction of the principals and chorus and in his use of a small but good-looking ballet, reaching the peak of his imagination in the storm scene and the finale, a would-be sacrifice of Idamantes in the temple. Leo Van Witsen's costumes were also outstanding, and the sum of the production so far superior to anything at the Metropolitan that comparison is impossible--a fact all the more astonishing because of the brief history of the Opera Theatre and its lack of a permanent home...
...same speech Drobner also said: "We are willing to go forward arm in arm, but we don't intend to have them lead us by the hand." And a brother Socialist commented: "Only Drobner would have dared, and managed to get away with it." The sum of the two statements was simply that Poland's "united front" government would stay united, and the Polish Socialists' no really meant...
Perhaps any one charity which conducted a separate campaign among the students as you are doing would raise a larger sum of money than would be obtained through the Service Fund, yet this is true only because of the existence of the Fund. Harvard students with the above good reasons for giving a limited amount would not tolerate seven or eight solicitations each year, and the total Harvard contribution to Cambridge would be reduced...
...though his eye watered he smiled expansively at nobody and continued across the Yard. Where was he walking to! Didn't he have to see someone at University Hall, or was it Lehman! Well, lot the big boys wait. He was taking a walk to think things over, to sum things up. The happiest days of his life, and perhaps in a way the least useful, that's what these days probably were. What did it matter; they'd be all over soon, and he'd have to start looking around for something...