Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another group of summer school pupils will spend five weeks near Colorado Springs in a Geology field course, visiting the summit of Pike's Peak, the San Luis Valley, Loveland Pass, and other points of geologic interest...
...Having signed the second deficiency bill appropriating $82,000,000, chiefly for TVA, and authorizing that body to start work on a new $112,000,000 dam at Gilbertsville, Ky., Franklin Roosevelt last week packed himself off to spend Memorial Day with his mother at Hyde Park, his first visit with her in four months...
...annual entertainment for the Press. Upwards of 700 people attended, the men predominantly young fellows who work on Washington's newspapers and in the local bureaus of agencies and out-of-town papers ; the women, some wives, some newspaper women but the majority lively young things who spend their days at typewriters or store counters, pretty as debutantes are not. They had the time of their lives in their swankiest $11.98 copies of Paris models, dancing in the President's parlor, strolling on the President's south lawn between strings of Japanese lanterns, congregating in the lobby...
...Grant should have played in a major Davis Cup match long before 1937. Be cause his legs and arms are so short that he has to spend most of his time chasing the ball, Grant frequently falls down, has become dextrous at returning shots while sitting on the ground. This has caused experts to underestimate the soundness of his game, which has enabled him to beat most of the world's best players at one time or another. Grant has been struggling to get on the U. S. Davis Cup team for the past five years...
Haunting U. S. psychiatrists almost as much as it does their prospective patients is the alarming increase of modern mental diseases.* One out of every 22 persons, promises a New York State survey, may expect to spend some part of his life in a mental hospital. The gloomiest statisticians predict that in a couple of centuries everybody will be insane. The Mentally Ill in America is an authoritative, well-organized account of how the U. S. has coped with mental defectives thus far, attempts no predictions...