Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduate schools and the ranks of retired teachers. Briefing sessions enable these supervisors to carry out to some extent the general Bureau of Study Counsel technique in their specialized instruction. Fee for this service is $2.50 an hour with scaled rates for men who can't afford the regular sum. General counsel, however, is offered at no cost...
Economics thus presented is no dry affair, rather something to make all that is human in its readers revolt. First we are told that the needs in dollars of hungry peoples come for 1947 to $583 million, then that a sum far greater is being lavished on atomic research by the very Governments which "might or might not act in keeping with their findings" concerning hunger...
...occupation; and the question of reparations and how they are to be paid. The Russians are expected to demand an immediate award of ten billion dollars worth of German goods in accordance with their claim that Britain and the United States have already seized German assets to the sum of several billion dollars. Mr. Molotov can also be expected to insist upon a speeding up of industrial removals within the three western zones of occupied Germany...
...shirk a financial role any longer. For education, unlike bridges or garbage disposal units, cannot be used or misused by any one state isolated from the other 47. Not only do millions move from one state to another, carrying with them their educations, good or bad, but the sum total of the national intelligence and wealth rests upon the education received...
Professor Ivor A. Richards, one of the first workers in basic English, yesterday called the $92,000 purchase of Basic's copyright by the British government a "very small sum" for a language that could prevent atomic warfare...