Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Municipal government is notoriously bad but I doubt very much that even our Philadelphia authorities ever permitted Everett Shinn and ''a one-eyed Civil War veteran" to spend a night ''sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn" atop our monstrous City Hall, as stated in your issue of March...
Before dawn in Montreal one morning last week, hundreds of pious folk began toiling up the icy slopes of Mount Royal to a long, low crypt cut out of the rock of the Côte des Neiges. Many of them brought food, planning to spend the day which was the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of Christ. By nightfall 50,000 pilgrims had crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont...
...temperature which can be sustained and measured, the positive pole of a carbon arc is the hottest place on Earth. Three Cleveland electrochemists who spend their time studying carbon have established this record temperature at close...
Freshmen competing on the photographic end find themselves in a rush of activity, for they must supply the CRIMSON with a pictorial record of Harvard's spring frivolities. As a result they spend April and May in the midst of riot and mob scenes...
...Author Roberts' tricks of style, which include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again. And nobody even attempted to laugh him out of it. He continued to exercise omnipotence over his farm, had a lookout built...