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Word: sums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real estate dealer, Edward J. Fitzgerald, who filed suit for the sum Thursday, contends that the University hired him to arrange the sale of some unused Harvard property on the Soldiers Field Road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Named In Damages Suit | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...lovely young thing with a charming little nose . . . She was sold at auction like a slave of Roman days, and so fascinating she was that the final bid for her possession reached the tidy sum of $245,000. Who purchased Sabine at the time, who owns her now, I am not sure-Mr. Harkness was under Sabine's spell, if I am not mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...think it accomplished just what I set out to do," said Republican Taft last week in sum-up. "Rather better than I thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senator Rests | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...move on. All through 1949, while the team played indifferent ball, talk of the sale of the Indians bubbled on a back burner. Last week Veeck sold his Indians for an estimated $2,200,000 to a group of Cleveland businessmen headed by Insurance Executive Ellis Ryan. The sum was about $1,000,900 more than Veeck and his partners had paid for the club. Said Bill Veeck, when asked what major-league city he was planning to invade next: "I'm not even worrying now about getting back into the baseball business." But nobody thought that Bill Veeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man with the Pink Hair | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Port: If it comes out even, it's only because the final sum is zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Sand | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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