Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ecstasy. Two-and-a-half hours later a censored recording of the speech was rebroadcast. A polished, edited official version of the text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb...
Said Mr. Thweatt, slightly bitter: "If the government is going to spend so much money for a correctional institution and if the religion of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is a correctional religion, then why should the news of an inmate's accepting the religion be barred from the press and public knowledge...
Northwestern's new institute will be conducted on this cooperative plan, whereby students spend equal periods studying in the school and working in industry, take five years to complete the course, will be virtually assured of a job when they finish. Offering civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering courses, the institute will open in September 1940, eventually accommodate 800 students...
...objections to these proposals are well known. The more upperclassmen there are who spend only one or two years in the Houses; the harder it is to obtain House spirit. And the presence of associate members will further weaken the bonds uniting regular members. That these protests are to some degree valid is quite true. But the only question here is whether these disadvantages outweigh the advantage of extending the benefits of the system to the Out-of-Housers. Is it fair to make some three hundred men go without the privileges the rest of the college enjoys...
...democracy. "Our authority . . . must not be so severe that children learn to dislike all authority. . . . Our children must be allowed and encouraged to help make decisions that affect the whole family. Vacation plans, the division of household tasks, even decisions as to the way the family should spend its money are ways to develop democracy in the home...