Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...shrewd businessman and wise investor. His father amassed a fortune in carpet manufacturing, which business Higgins took over. But he soon sold it and went on to build up his wealth through investments. His income was reputed to amount...
Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...
Harry T. Levin '33, Archibald MacLeish, and the Reverend Frederick B. Kellogg comprise the committee which handles the endowment fund. To continue the program as planned, $10,000 will be needed. So far, only $7,200 of this amount has been raised...
...N.S.A. asked Fischelis to head the first seminar after the Rockefeller Foundation had given &10,000 for the experiment. The High Commission contributed a similar amount, and requests for money to enlarge the program have been made to both organizations...
Harris stated that "Under Governor Dever, the per capita state tax is only $69.53 while the national average is $81.12. While the per capita tax all over the country was rising 13.8 percent, in Massachusetts it rose only half that amount...