Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five hundred students to spend eight minutes thus amounts to four thousand minutes wasted out of every hour; there are four morning hour classes, and four times four thousand is sixteen thousand minutes wasted a day; there are a minimum of one hundred class days a year, which gives one million six hundred minutes a year wasted by men with classes in Harvard Hall...
What the Council proposes to do is spend $100,000 or more per year in attempting to persuade U. S. citizens to drink like gentlemen, to acquire "an attitude of individual responsibility toward the use of liquor. Our messages will travel over the airwaves, reach the eye and ear through the screen and stage, and fashion public thought through advertising and other kinds of publicity...
Needless to say, the magnitude of the new project on which the College is embarking makes any analysis of Mr. Plimpton's precise duties well-nigh impossible. Those who have conceived the new position expect him to spend the rest of this year investigating; the entire employment situation before embarking on definite policies...
...sadly told his orchestra boys that from now on he was a lawyer. A year later he came back from a Florida law office, reorganized the orchestra, and began to use a melody called Stardust as his signature song. That song was published; and Hoagy left the orchestra to spend all of his time working out the tunes that troubled his sad soul. You know them: Georgia on My Mind, One Morning in May, Moon Country, Snowball, and many other mournful plaints that made music publishers glad. His last song was Judy. Hoagy has many more lachrymose reflections on romance...
...Experienced practitioners hover over him all the time, show him how to do this & that. In time he may get opportunity to suture the peritoneum after the appendectomist or the laparotomist gets through his work. But real experience in surgery is usually reserved for the man who intends to spend another year or more as a "resident" in surgery. As for training in delivering babies, the paucity of opportunity in that important field of medicine is a great scandal among doctors interested in obstetrical education...