Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men are coming from the ends of the earth to spend some days in Cambridge in round table conferences with scores of younger scholars in attendance. Display is not the one purpose in view, although Harvard has full right to vaunt itself at such an anniversary as this will...
...only fish left in the relief pond. Of the $1,425,000,000 for relief in the next fiscal year all was allotted to him. Some $85,000,000 was set aside for rural rehabilitation, but the bill specified that Mr. Hopkins, not Dr. Tugwell, was to spend it. For Secretary Ickes and his Public Works there was not a cent. Dr. Tugwell kept smiling when these facts were brought out, admitted that under the terms of the bill his 17,000 employes would have no funds to work with, that, except for rural rehabilitation (taken over...
System of the syndicate was simple and efficient. Every Sunday or Monday each prostitute would telephone her booker who would tell her at which "house" she was to spend the following week. Girls were shunted from apartment to apartment, said Prosecutor Dewey, "in the manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
...matriculants at Union must possess an A. B. degree from an accredited college. About 23 years old, each is prepared to spend three years winning the seminary's lowest degree, Bachelor of Divinity. Other degrees a student may strive for are Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Theology and, jointly from Union and Columbia University, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. (The degree which enables many a clergyman to call himself "Dr." is an honorary one of Doctor of Divinity...
...until their last year do Union men get around to specializing in a particular denomination. Then they spend an hour a week learning about it from a specialist in whatever "church polity" interests them. By examination time in the spring a Union Methodist should be well grounded in all that any Methodist should know; an Episcopalian should be able to answer the hard questions he will be asked before ordination to the diaconate; a Presbyterian can tell the difference between the Westminster and Auburn Confessions. The average member of Union's graduating class will be temporarily content with...