Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen, a shadow flickered?a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot. The date was the year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door...
...will spend, you've--well, what have you done...
...University baseball team will spend Monday night at Wallingford, Conn., it was announced last night. The first game of the annual series with the Blue is scheduled to be played this year on Tuesday, and the proposed stay at Choate will be for the night before the game...
...average overworked undergraduate turn toward his late instructors even less than they did during the earlier portion of the college year. His mental picture of his recent guides and philosophers and historians, assuming that he has one, displays them proceeding unanimously toward the Widener Library, preparing to spend a pleasant and profitable summer in the stacks...
...money, and elaborate extra-mural organizations and campaigns for funds absorb much of their attention. . . . It is likely to be much easier to procure an appropriation of five thousand dollars in order to paint a building which is in no great need of paint, than to get authority to spend five hundred dollars upon a rare and costly book which is only needed for scholarly research. It is significant that those who rule our universities sometimes actually think and speak of them after the manner of business enterprises...