Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership fee for the entire summer is five dollars, which sum puts at the disposal of the commuter facilities including two common rooms, a cafeteria which serves noon meals at minimum prices, a library, a locker room, and a ping-pong table...
...early with good airplanes, poured them out faster than anyone else. But freezing works against the Nazis now. If they make a wholesale switch to new models, their production lines must slow up. If the Nazis hang on to what they have, German war planes will be inferior. In sum: the Germans, unlike the U.S., can't have it both ways in full degree. The same is also true of the Japs, whose aircraft industry is pipsqueak small...
...with loans and groceries, took 1,500 slum children to the seaside every summer, opened two night shelters for homeless unfortunates. For them it was a pity when Crime Accountant Joseph Cook nabbed him on a wretchedly small irregularity of ?7, found his piteous appeals had netted the spanking sum of about ?150,000 in his 17 letter-writing years. Last week the hoary old rascal went to jail...
Against towering Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playmg intimate of Adolf Hitler Bostonian Francis Wilson filed suit for $1,800, charged that he had advanced that sum for the education of Putzi's son at Harvard, never got it back. Son Egon Hanfstaengl left Harvard last year to join the U.S. Army Air Forces. His father was last heard from in a Canadian concentration camp...
This was the time one was supposed to think back over the last four years, to sum them up, to sift the wheat from the chaff, to see everything in its proper proportion. Vag had a jumbled image of the Larz Anderson Bridge on a Saturday afternoon in the fall, of the workmen putting wooden treads on the Widener steps and driving stakes into the ground to guide the snow-plows, of Memorial Hall, with thin trickles of sunlight straining through the colored glasses, and rows of heads bent over tables, and of that first light green tinge the trees...