A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

SUM

Sun, 13 Oct '24
Bottom of some columns
Sun, 30 Jun '24
Total
Fri, 19 Apr '24
Put together
Sun, 17 Dec '23
Put together
Sat, 2 Sep '23
Grand total
Sun, 26 Feb '23
Zero-___ game
Sun, 19 Feb '23
Total
Fri, 3 Feb '23
Word with dim
Sat, 21 Jan '23
Aggregate
Sun, 4 Sep '22
"I am," in Latin
Sat, 7 May '22
Total
Thu, 28 Apr '22
Adding purpose?
Wed, 9 Feb '22
45, for each row and column in a sudoku grid
Fri, 4 Feb '22
?, in math
Mon, 15 Nov '21
"Cogito ergo ___"