Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Madison Square Garden one night this week, pickets paraded up and down, beseeching Manhattanites not to spend money that might go to Nazi Germany. Inside, 17,000 boxing fans were clamorously awaiting another chance to see in action the famed right fist that had once felled Heavyweight Champion...
...Vagabond is one of those energetic souls who has a healthy dislike for people who spend their lives telling others how to conduct themselves and yet never manage to accomplish anything worthwhile themselves. Of a temperament eager and alive to things new, and yet not blind to what has come down from ages and generations past, he delights in old works which have so breathed the breath of life that they still cast their influence on people today, and he takes pleasure in the men who interpret these old works to a new age, a new generation, in the light...
...developed a method of utilizing X-ray diffraction comeras for the measurement of crystal spacings. Through the use of this camera one photograph taken in less than an hour and interpreted in a few minutes will completely establish the orientation of metallic crystals, whereas formerly a careful observer might spend the larger part of a day in getting the same results. This method has now been adopted as standard practice in most metallurgical laboratories throughout the country. Dr. Greninger is also engaged in the study of the change of crystal structure in the send state...
...neglected Leverett House Senior looked in his mailbox a week ago and found the first bit of mail he had gotten in eleven days. It was an announcement of reduced airplane rates to Chicago and other of the larger cities; but he was going to spend the vacation in Manchester, New Hampshire. Justifiably annoyed, he thought, "I'm gonna write myself a letter," and did. He mailed it from Wayland...
Clearly if the University is to make itself an example of a progressive and liberal employer, it is going to spend more money on service than in the past. The students will have to pay part and the alumni must help, remembering their embarrassment when, during Lowell's administration, the pittance given the scrubwomen was printed throughout the country. If Harvard is to become a part of the best in American civilization, it should treat its people just as solicitously as it does its knowledge, nor in striving for the intellectual can it let its feet turn to clay...