Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millionaire once offered the University a large sum of money for a new building, provided only that it be in Turkish style. "It's the only kind of architecture," he explained, "you haven't got." He wasn't far from wrong. And if Lamont Library is one of the extremes of Harvard's mongrel collection, the Germanic Museum certainly qualifies for the other. The red-roofed building, adorned with Teutonic eagles and lions and a quotation from Schiller, sits on the corner of Kirkland Street and Divinity Avenue like a misplaced Valkyrie grown slightly stout...
Author Dobie's book is saturated with the lore of the range, the brush and the border country. It is the final word on its subject, and very nearly one of those classic studies that seem to sum up everything that has been written before it. A lack of focus weakens it, a discursiveness, and an argumentative mood about the anti-coyote policy in Washington. But at its best, it reads the way oldtimers talk, with a fine earthy mixture of courtesy and superstition, wisdom and independence...
That could be fixed. Angel Farrell paid a lump-sum $1,300,000 for the Warner Theater ("a cash deal is best") and closed Hold It! until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest. When contractual snarls developed over transplanting Hold It!, Farrell switched from musicomedy to revue, signed up Comics Bert Wheeler and Paul and Grace Hartman, tossed in another $250,000 and put on All for Love. It was a critical flop...
...recommended complete preparation for war. Nothing would please a potential enemy better than to have us bankrupt our country and destroy our economy by maintaining complete readiness for armed conflict." As it is, added Mahon, "This year we will appropriate for national defense more than 3,000% above the sum that was expended for national defense four years after World...
...Civil War left Washington College in desperate straits. Four months after Appomattox, it invited Robert E. Lee himself to be president. He was the one man, the college thought, who could save the day. Lee agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools of law, commerce and engineering, raised enrollments from 97 to 410. After he died, five years later, the college bracketed his name with that of the first great Virginian; the school became Washington and Lee University...