Word: sums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...judgment the Lustron type of home cannot be satisfactorily marketed until such time as it can be sold for a maximum sum of $6,500 including the building site, and to continue to waste the taxpayers' money on such a project is absurd...
President W. K. Jordan accepted the gift for the college from Mrs. Horace W. Frost, president of the Association. He told the alumnae, and their guests, the Class of 1949, that the sum had been raised "without the aid and stimulus of any large gift...
...Church, which preaches the brotherhood of man, and the primacy of love, provides for priest and wife in their old age just about half the sum needed to maintain a minimum standard of life. It is conduct such as this, conduct bringing religion into disrepute, which in the age of Jesus was called the desecration of God's Name...
Among the guests was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who made a conditional gift of $5,000,000 to the Business School last Thursday. The condition is that the school must match the sum by July 1, 1950. It was Rockefeller's first visit to the School...
These two remarks, I think, sum up the film very nicely. Fred Astaire said a couple of years ago that he was through with pictures; his return to the screen with his old sparring partner Ginger Rogers is an unexpected treat. Astaire must have secretly kept in training because in his new film he doesn't look the least bit old or bored or rusty. If anything, the vacation has done him good...