Word: sums
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...least three slightly varying versions, and some of its archaic features have already been dropped. One provided: "No one shall be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman for the death of any person except her husband." Another proclaimed: "If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age." The legislation introduced in Parliament will repeal ten other clauses that have either gone unenforced in recent years or have been superseded...
Beyond this, what is unusual about Mattie is that he has a check in his pocket for $25,452.32-the accumulation with interest of his 47 years of prison wages. A large sum in a Depression year, and the good citizens of Glory aren't about to let a freshly pardoned convict walk off with it. "When I hit town at sunup I heared it," says a taleteller. "Talk. Everywheres. A muttering meanness. In the Krogers and the A.&P. and up at Pickett's Store and at the farmers' market out First Street by the glass...
Realizing that the Friends have been supplying substantial funds during the last few successful crew seasons, the lightweights contributed almost half of the required sum themselves. They supplied $3200 of the anticipated $7800 bill, and the Friends of Harvard Rowing gave the rest...
...Birth of a Nation, even single shots are given several emotional directions by the placement and movement of the several characters. The subject of this drama is individual sentiment; its type, melodrama, whether historical (Mary of Scotland), social (Tobacco Road), or familial (How Green). Society exists only as the sum of individuals' actions and sentiments...
Mysteries and paradoxes in the case abounded, but one of the most puzzling aspects was Fortas' concern for what, by his standards, was a relatively small sum of money. Until he went on the bench, he grossed well over $100,000 a year; some estimates go as high as $250,000. His wife, a noted tax lawyer in his old firm of Arnold and Porter, still makes more than $100,000. They lived exceedingly well, but Fortas has also in the past freely donated his expensive time and talent to causes and people he believed in. As it happens...