Word: spending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Drink," he was thinking of the slowing-down of the production of munitions by the drunkenness of the workman. America, too, has drunken workmen, and they should be made sober. Moreover, the cost of food is, and will be, very great, so that no man should be permitted to spend on liquor the money needed for the sustenance of his family. Let us take to heart the word that comes from Russia to the effect that the savings in her banks have increased more than twenty-fold since the prohibition of the sale of vodka in spite of the terrible...
...Leonard Wood and Major William Kelley, Jr., in regard to the continuance of athletic work with particular reference to intercollegiate competition, decided to continue such work until they are advised to the contrary by General Wood or Major Kelley. All candidates and members of athletic teams are required to spend at least three hours a week in drilling or else be barred from competition...
...foreign business in this respect, and make it available for all business of this country, so that recruiting and military service may go on with the least possible friction and damage to business. The members of the board will work without pay, and at least one of them will spend all his time in Washington, where offices and a staff will be maintained...
...spring sports should strengthen the single-minded purpose of the University to co-operate with the Government. By completely abolishing these contests the great expense of crew races, track meets and baseball games will be removed, and those now engaged in athletics will have more time to spend on military training...
...colleges. We eagerly look forward for instance to a damnation of higher mathematics. It is such a useless study. What chance will a Wall Street clerk ever have of applying his calculus to his life-work? And then, too, you know it is so dreadfully difficult. Men sometimes spend thirty consecutive minutes pondering over a lot of mysterious signs and symbols--really, it is pitiful...