Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartment buildings belonging to the institute. Each couple is given two rooms, plus another room for every two children. The core of the institute is its 20 "permanent members," mostly Protestant clergymen, who have banded together into a corporate ministry. The rest of the community consists of "interns," who spend a year at the institute, and "fellows," who have no definite terms of residence...
...good dean of admissions; it is hard to be a very good one. The routine varies little from year to year. Every fall, like others on the admissions staff, the dean takes a few states (usually quite distant from each other) and goes out recruiting. He will spend three days or so listening to alumni talk about this year's prospects, chatting with principals, addressing student groups and occasionally interviewing applicants...
...contend that national educational quality would be immeasurably better served by taking the money now spent on private preparatory schools as well as whatever amounts Dean Sizer hopes the federal government will spend in aid to these obviously impoverished institutions and give them instead to the schools truly in need of help--in the slums and rural areas. The $170,000 to be spent by the Danforth Foundation for its "study" of prep schools alone would pay for a full year's improved operation of the public school systems in any one of a number of counties in West Virginia...
...frequently the equipment in question--a tool or a motion picture projector or an up-to-date text--is simply not available on the spot, while it may prove impossible to raise locally all the money needed for a given project. To me it seems a little ridiculous to spend thousands of dollars training Volunteers and sending them overseas, and then to balk at adding the $100 or $200 which might enable them to carry a project through...
...center of town? And why did the Brooks complete projects when other Volunteers could not? One answer may lie in the person of the director of the Casa del Obrero, a dynamic and dedicated man. Without at least one well placed ally in the local power structure, many Volunteers spend their time pushing on a string...