Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift is unusual both in that the total princpal is to be spent within two years and in that it provides for possible preparatory work before entering college. Dean Monro stated that these conditions were established by the donor and do not represent a growing trend on the part of the Committee on Freshman Scholarships...
...After two crowded days in which judges looked over a total of 2,544 entries, Judge Thomas H. Carruthers III bestowed the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show designation, dogdom's topflight honor, on a saucy, 4½-year-old, English-bred miniature poodle bitch, Ch. Fontclair Festoon. "The poodle was in beautiful form," said Carruthers, "full of quality, and moved perfectly." Flushed with success, Festoon will be retired from the show ring to the business of bearing high-priced pups...
...campaign against canned music is being mounted by New York City's big (30,000 members ) Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Calling itself "the first victim of automation,'' the federation (total membership: 260,000) says that only 75,000 members now make a living from music (average: $3,500 yearly). The union also reports a serious shortage of young string players, is handing out a minimum of 50 scholarships a year for instrumental students. Local 802 is particularly concerned with New York City's still relatively lusty night life, is spending...
...that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve years-for burglary...
...Nationwide department store sales for the first week in February soared 9% over the comparable week of 1958. For January, the Commerce Department estimated total U.S. retail sales at $16,340,000,000, up more than $1 billion from January...