Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messers. Hart and Curtiss would do well to retain a lawyer if they intend to spend their days making criminal accusations after carefully misreading the morning paper. Statements of this sort whether verbal or written, do great harm to accused and in their impact bring shame to the University and in their disapproval, ridicule...
...outboard motors, cost about $400 to build. In 1934 Los Angeles' Frederick Offenhauser, longtime assistant of Harry Miller whose standard-size engines won most of the important U. S. auto races in the past decade, developed a special miniature motor. Most top-notch doodlebuggers now use Offenhauser motors, spend up to $5,000 for a racing car. A doodlebug generates anything from 15 to 65 h. p., can do up to 120 m. p. h. on a straightaway. Even though races rarely exceed 70 m. p. h., the impression of speed is spectacular, even scary...
...American Trucking Associations; Gove Griffith Johnson Jr., Aurora Hills, Virginia, A.B., 1934, Harvard, Treasury Department; Oscar Mendel Lurie, New York City, A.B., 1935, Harvard, will remain for an additional year with the United States Employment Service, and William Augustus Waldron 2nd, Schnectady, New York, A.B., 1935, Union College, will spend next year in the field, probably with some state government...
...quiet, likeable man, Mr. Metcalf was cornered in his imposing office on the right wing of Widener as one enters the building. "There will be no changes of any kind this fall," he said. "I shall spend the first months getting acquainted...
...rumors that the cataloguing of Widener books is not up to par, Mr. Metcalf declared that, since the library takes in over 350 new volumes a day, complaints about the speed of cataloguing new books are unavoidable. He revealed that Widener alone has a staff of 50 persons who spend all their time cataloguing. Some volumes, the cataloguing of which has been held up for a long time, will not be catalogued, he said, if it does not seem worthwhile. He also mentioned the method of "short cataloguing" used on certain books for which the demand is very limited...