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Word: spending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caretakers has been spending a whole day and is due to spend some more answering calls from Dorchester, Roxbury, and Lowell, all of which claim that they are sure they have the cat. The markings are absolutely identical with the description, say they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO CAT YET, BUT YARD COPS TURN UP TWO DACHSHUNDS | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

...Burton is a gentleman jockey, he has unusually tender feelings, to be forced to neglect his work due merely to ribald jibes. And if he is a gentleman he should feel a good deal more humiliated at having spend over two years grubbing for some money in reparation for something that was nobody's fault but his own, and that he had no business getting in for in the first place...

Author: By Whang Poo., | Title: Off Key | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

...will be placed at one of the stations on the coast, probably at Cartwright. The other will spend the summer as a seaman on the mission schooner "George B. Cluett," which carries the volunteer workers from Portland to Labrador and then spends the rest of the summer distributing the supplies for the winter to the various stations on the coast from Saint Anthony, Newfoundland, the mission base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. WILL SELECT TWO MEN FOR GRENFELL JOB | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

...afraid. Your eye will be caught by one of the new copies of Life (advt.) and you can settle down with it. If you are really resourceful you will find occasion to dash across the hall to show a real erotic picture to Jones, '38. Then you can spend the rest of the day listening to his new records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Such things as long bull-sessions with one's cronies should not be neglected during Reading Period. Some last all night and you can spend the next day in bed and there is all that time you managed to save. Bull-sessions don't educate you at all, either. And sometimes you can make yourself sick enough smoking cigarettes to end up at the Infirmary. The Infirmary, of course, is the creme de la creme, and the pinnacle aspiration of the man who wants to spend his Reading Period wisely. There you can get chocolate milks and orange juice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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