Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Mrs. Lee decided to promote medical examiners by giving Harvard $250,000 to establish Legal Medicine as an autonomous academic department. (The Cleveland pathologist who was chosen to head the department had to spend two years in Europe studying Legal Medicine before he could assume the post, since there was no school in this country which could teach it to him.) In succeeding years she continued to donate money, much of it going to the department's library--still the best library of Legal Medicine in the country...
...condone waste of still-usable automobiles and refrigerators because Americans can afford the "better" things, and you state that the only real waste is the waste of human resources. Did it not occur to the writer that the majority of Americans spend their lives in jobs they don't like mainly to earn more money to buy-and to waste-such items? Are these people not wasting their lives in the "real" sense of the word...
...recent years, a number of Protestant theologians have suggested that the very notion of a cathedral is an anachronism, and that the church should spend money fulfilling human needs rather than building showy edifices. Donegan is both sensitive to the charge and demonstrably concerned with human needs. Last year he admitted that his stand for civil rights had lost the diocese substantial pledges for cathedral construction-an announcement that stirred other donors to make compensatory gifts. The building fund now stands at $2,500,000, as compared with cost estimates that go from $12 million to $25 million, but Donegan...
...occasionally a lawyer, doctor, journalist and innkeeper and chronically a failure, Carry went on the warpath. Commencing in the town of Medicine Lodge, Carry's hatchet proceeded to enforce the letter of the law wherever she found Hawkeyes slaking their thirst. It was her habit to spend the eve of battle walking around on her knees-a kinetic form of prayer-sometimes anointing herself with fireplace ashes. From these rituals, Carry apparently drew prodigious strength. While raiding the Senate Bar in Topeka on Feb. 5, 1901, she disarmed a pistol-toting bartender (his two shots missed) and pulverized...
...students who must hold part-time jobs to keep themselves in school have less time to spend on their studies and thus are automatically at a disadvantage...