Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sum, the U.S. does not want to make Germany a nation of foresters and goatherds, as envisaged by former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. It wants Germany to be able to sustain itself, but only after the neighbors its armies overran have been given a head start toward recovery...
...obviously wanted the simple call letters "ABC." But the smaller Associated Broadcasting Corp. network, which got there first, promptly sued. To prove that there is nothing simple about the ABCs, American last week paid Associated $25,000 out of court for rights to the initials.* For that sum, Associated gladly called itself a "system" rather than a "corporation," said that it would henceforth be known...
...consuming monster, violating the "American tradition" under which, they said, the soldier preferred to lie among members of his own family, in a graveyard in his own community, in ground consecrated according to the rites of his creed. The cemetery associations wanted Congress to allot families a set sum for private burials. Private cemeteries, they claimed, have enough vacant plots for 200 years...
...librarian, was able to move the collection almost single handed to its new location in Harvard Hall, in 1676, for which "pains" the Corporation paid him 50 shillings. Extant catalogues of the 1750's show the library, which was recognized as the most important in the country, with the sum total of 5,000 volumes...
...sum: Europe's plain people were trying to find a 20th-century way of expressing Europe's peculiar contribution to civilization-the dignity and worth of the individual...