Word: expends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to popular impression, money for the Coit Tower was left not for a personal memorial but to the city Art Commission "to expend the same in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...
...cases, they are wretchedly written, far too long, and almost demand an auxiliary outline in order successfully to be utilized. When such conditions arise, the bureaus are almost justified, in their claims that their summaries are not an infringement but an assistance; further, students can hardly be expected to expend thirty or forty dollars on confusing books when useful outlines can be obtained for a much lower price...
...spite of the fact that the budget has had to be cut over 18 percent, the Council apparently sees no reason why it should not continue to expend a total of $140 this year for the postage and printing of balloting cards which experience has shown less than half the class respond to. Out of the 760 ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused...
...Friendship, by Owen Wister, (TIME, June 23) book reviewers were puzzled, historians baffled, as to what was the matter with the book. The publishers spoke vaguely of "certain corrections'' it was "necessary" to make but declined to explain what grave thing was forcing them to expend perhaps $100,000 on repaging, replating, reprinting, rebinding. Author Wister was in Europe. His family referred to "anonymous protests...
...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...