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...head a cold (see p. 46). In these circumstances the Congress had to wait its turn. To amuse the Senate the President sent up to the Capitol for confirmation the nominations of 3,616 assorted Government officers appointed since the last Congress adjourned. The House was allowed to fritter away a couple of days debating the Independent Offices Appropriation bill including an item of $10,400 to buy electricity for the White House. Thus the President gave Congress some excuse for being in session, until his detailed program for Congressional action was ready...
...Vickers was a tomboy, a bossy little girl who, like many another, never quite got over her youth. In spite of temptations she refused to fritter away her seriousness in the usual boy-&-girl business in her small-town set. She went to a small Eastern college, splashed seriously, busily, happily as its Biggest Frog. There she was tempted from her narrow way by a liberal-minded professor, who tried to seduce her but succeeded only in destroying her orthodox faith. After graduation Ann rolled up her sleeves, got into the woman-suffrage fight. From that point...
...then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel...
Some say that when a man enters a university he has reached the age when it is up to him to decide whether he is to make the most of his time spent there or whether he is to fritter it away, together with his family's money. This, they say, is the principle on which English universities operate, and toward which Harvard has been inclining...
...farmers' demand were not insistent, it is doubtful whether the Administration would ever have favored the Tincher bill, because there is some doubt whether the revolving fund will revolve or will merely fritter away into frozen loans. Many farmers do not want their co-operatives to be saddled with these loans, much preferring a gift of $375,000,000 at once, and then a division of any losses above that by means of the tax against all producers...