Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre of that small band of serious, sunburned young women who spend most of their days playing golf against each other in tournaments all over the U. S. are a few members whose accomplishments have made them known by their first names to a larger public. Thus to U. S. sports page readers, "Glenna" is Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, six times...
...realist, Walter Greenwood gives his poverty-stricken story a fresh angle, distinguishes it from the monotonous, incredible heroics of most proletarian fiction. Main reason the wretched people in Love on the Dole are believable is that they spend little time trying to adjust the work to themselves. Barely surviving, they have their lives full trying to adjust themselves to the world...
Ralph Heyward Isham is a 45-year-old American (though he looks and talks like a Briton) who is fond of 18th Century books and of having his own way. Because he also inherited a sizeable fortune and because he was willing to spend large chunks of it to buy what he wanted, he has one of the world's best collections of 18th Century English literature. Like other collectors he had heard of the Malahide papers. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia's famed dealer, had cabled a bid of $250,000 for them. Lord Talbot...
Declared Verner W. Main, a Michigan Republican elected to the House last year with the aid of local Townsendites (TIME, Dec. 30) : "I am in favor of the investigation but I don't think we ought to spend $25,000 or $50,000 cutting down a beanstalk to see why Jack doesn't fall. . . . You are attempting to do that which Canute of old failed to do, when he made his futile gesture of commanding the ocean to recede...
...that we are in the midst of Freshman and Senior elections, the urgency for definite rules governing their conduct becomes once more apparent. Every year those in charge spend unnecessary time and effort in evolving new regulations, whereas permanent rules drawn up by the Student Council would put a stop to the annual bickering and indecision. These are the questions which must be answered and answered in the near future: Who shall be eligible to vote? How shall a ballot be counted that is marked with but one or two preference instead of the required three? What...