Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voluntary experiments of the Quaker and Work-Camps for America variety, and enrolling a number of undergraduates in the camp. With the backing of Phillips Brooks House, of the Student Council, and of other groups in the Yard, the project should readily succeed, for it is not a large sum which is needed. Such a camp would be, in the realest sense, a contribution to the domestic defense--and perhaps even a more meaningful contribution than is now being made by Harvard in other lines...
Opening the program, Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, gave a picture of the magnitude of the defense program and the implications of defense expenditure. Claiming that the present sum of $6,000,000,000 to be spent for defense during the next fiscal year, is nothing compared to the sums that will be spent in the future, Hansen made the point that with the rise in expenditures, "our capacity for production must be allowed to expand to increase our national income...
...student earned the large sum by working summer and fall. It was all he had. If the finder of the money does have a conscience, he can ease it by turning in the money, no questions asked, to the CRIMSON office. It will mean the band-member can graduate this spring...
...irony of the situation, Professor Sorokin told his Sec 1 class yesterday morning, was that he had just spent a goodly sum having the whole car checked and a new transmission...
Showa is the name which Hirohito chose to typify his reign: it means Radiant Peace. Last week's celebration, coming at a time distinctly wanting in peace, gave Japan's men of influence occasion to consider the Japanese Empire carefully. They knew it as a sum total of many factors: a set of islands where 70,000,000 people live almost literally elbow to elbow; a low standard of living; the third biggest Navy in the world; a ragged but dogged Army (1,125,000 men in the field, 6,000,000 trained, partly trained and untrained eligibles...