Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fight? Naturally enough, there was no one view that stood out above all the others at the end, but two or three delegates tried to sum Up. Said Chairman Eisenhower: "The greatest danger to democracy is narrowness...
When it reaches full operation, the plan will leave each library responsible for the purchase of a copy of every book published in its assigned field. The sum total of the fields will include all publications of possible value to research workers...
...Algernon Swinburne, rummaging through the penny book box at Bookseller Quaritch's, made a sensational "find" - the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam rendered into English by an anonymous translator. "Next day," Swinburne reported crossly, "when we returned for more [copies], the price was raised to the iniquitous and exorbitant sum of twopence. You should have heard . . . the . . . impressive severity of Gabriel's humorous expostulations with [Mr. Quaritch], on behalf of a defrauded if limited public...
...caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library including all save one of the volumes John Harvard had donated. Feeling partly responsible for the tragedy, the Commonwealth put forth funds to the sum of $23,000 for a new building, and Governor Francis Bernard himself designed it in traditional Georgian style. Thus in 1766 the College's fifth oldest edifice was erected...
Three letters written to friends, now in police possession, Dr. Brickley declared, had a distinct "tone of melancholy." Harmon also sent many of his personal effects back to his family in Churchville, New York, and transferred "a large sum of money" from his Cambridge bank to another depository...