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Word: sums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the agreement Ivy will receive a "considerable sum" from the Madison Agency in return for exclusive four-year rights on the film. Ward, president of Ivy Films, stated that the proceeds would easily enable the company to modernize and expand its equipment and operations with plenty left over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Sell World Rights To New Movie | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

Ninety percent of Leverett House members opened their wallets for the drive, but the $790 sum is $110 short of the $900 goal originally set by Chairman Richard G. Neisser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Finishes DP Campaign, Nets $790 | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...overnight last week, all this evidence as to the mind, character, instincts and aspirations of Richard H. Crowe lost its validity, and he became a stranger to all who knew him best. The National City discovered that $883,660-the largest sum ever stolen from a Manhattan bank-was missing from a vault at the branch bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Stranger | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Today's card features five claiming races, two $1400 purses, and The Inaugural Handicap worth a tidy $2500. A sleek filly named Lawless Miss is favored to cop the branny feedbag and present the above-mentioned tidy sum to lucky G. Y. Booker. She is a homobred daughter of Gallahadion...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...delighted to call ourselves Goldthorp or Asbell or Richmond College, or anything else," Armitage said, "if it will bring in a real endowment. If anybody doesn't have a million dollars but would like to put a smaller sum to good use, perhaps they'd like to endow the library or the chair of English literature. We'd be happy to make the namesake fit their pocketbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Innocent Merriment | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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