Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary purpose of Dean Birkoff's European trip this summer is to speak at the Oslo International Mathematics Congress which opens on July 13, and he will probably not spend more than a few days at Heidelberg. He will not lecture there, his official function being merely to extend Harvard greetings...
...home. People who agree with her to the extent of paying $1 to join her Conference automatically become eligible to enter a "Selection Sweepstakes." Here they are called upon to display their skill and judgment by arranging in order of desirability a list of 16 ways the Government could spend the money it might raise by legalizing lotteries. For best arrangement: $20,000. Other prizes total...
...rdenas change from day to day. If there is anything that can save Mexico now, it is for labor and the middle classes to organize and fight Communism. . . . But right now Mexico is a boiling caldron of dissatisfaction. I blame Cárdenas for my exile. I will spend the remainder of my life resting. I hope to find peace in California. . . . I had nothing to do with the bombing of the Vera Cruz train [see p. 66]. If the Government had thought so they would have executed me, not exiled...
...years have shown, minute splitting-up of groups is disastrous, since men are constantly going outside the House to see their friends, and destroying the unity which each House is supposed to possess. House spirit will be aided if the men in the House have no reason to spend their time elsewhere, or move out altogether...
...abandoning the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project and the Florida ship canal would seem to smack more strongly of political expediency than of any impelling reason for their desertion. Even though it be acknowledged that the Florida project was a flagrant instance of boon-doggling, necessitated by the need of spending so much money within a given time and within such and such a place, the "Quoddy" project has been praised by engineers and might possibly have been developed on a scale with the Boulder Dam, Grande Coulce and other highly successful New Deal projects. The Congress of the United States...