Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishment in the world covering more than 60 acres and employing about 50 persons beside the coaching staffs. Although it is necessary for the rest of the student body to pay for the use of the equipment, the Freshmen are exempt from a fee because they are required to spend at least three one hour periods each week in some form of physical exercise. The whole system is under the administration of the Harvard Athletic Association headed by William J. Bingham...
...been designated by Professor Copeland as the finest gentleman's library in the United States, and the Boylston Hall reading room for history, government, and economics. Fine Arts students will use the 10,000 books on that subject kept in Fogg Art Museum, while the science concentrators will spend much time in the various laboratory collections...
There is more "professional" jealousy to the square inch in the practice of medicine than in any other vocation that I know of; all any doctor has to do is to announce some new and possibly better development in medicine or surgery and he will spend as much time dodging professional brickbats as he will in catching the few and far between bouquets from colleagues. I know this from sad experience, having had the temerity some years back of announcing a bigger and better operation for removal of the tonsils...
Snapped an aide-de-camp of Governor General de Bono: "Anybody who thinks Mussolini is only bluffing should ride over the strategic highways and bridges we have built and are building. Italy does not spend millions and bring 125,000 men to Africa for bluff...
...their cards. The salesman's object is to wheedle the buyer into visiting his firm's showroom. Such an excursion will never take her outside the area bounded by Seventh Avenue, Madison Avenue, 30th Street and 42nd Street. At the manufacturer's showrooms the buyer may spend a whole day in a booth inspecting dress goods, sometimes on live models. She generally visits four or five showrooms before placing her orders...