Word: spending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weak catch up with the work they failed to master during the regular year. And even in the relatively long existence of college summer schools, the session has generally been regarded as something for those with unusual needs or interests--teachers or exceptional students who want or need to spend more of their time in classes...
...cattle raiser. Encouraged and coached by his father, Sid began trading, at 17 made $3,500 by shrewd cattle dealing. For a year and a half he attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout and leaseman, left the oilfields to return to his first love, cattle raising. His herd died of tick fever, putting...
...been honor guest at a lunch at a private club, with Pat Nixon the official hostess. Said Nina of American women: "They're all eager to shake hands, all very kindhearted, very friendly toward us, very much like our Russian women are toward American women. Foreign ministers spend a lot of time arguing and trying to persuade each other. It could be easier for women to reach an agreement among themselves [but] after all. less depends...
...Cole's salary and bonus approach $300,000. He likes to spend it, lives in a palatial $250,000 stone-and-glass lakeside house, dresses in hand-needled $175 suits that have fancy cuffs on the sleeves. With Wife Esther, Son David, 22 (an engineering student at Michigan), and Daughter Martha, 18 (a freshman at Michigan State), he shares three boats, four Chevies (one for each member of the family) and five TV-sets (two in color), which Cole watches "only to see if I can sharpen up the Chevy commercials...
...tragic to see our ministers both "overworked and underemployed," he added. They spend most of their time on petty things which have little to do with religion, and are therefore unable to study the real problems of sustaining the spiritual lives of men and women...