Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to Holy Writ, more divine effort is expended upon one lost sheep and more joy is attendant upon its recovery than upon ninety and nine in the fold, just so does it become necessary for the organized Church Militant to spend more time and trouble upon one pronounced heretic than upon ninety and nine who may be heretics but who, for one reason or another, have never raised the issue...
...Logic", by John Finley Jr., builds upon what is also a sound basis of critical thought. "The really important things," he says, "are those we face daily. A subway ride, for instance, is much more vital than a crisis, a great transaction, and things like that, because people spend more time in the subway than they do in crises. To be interested in crises, which rarely or never occur, and to be bored in the subway seems idiocy to me. So a college which teaches you to be successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself...
...Dixon '25 and possibly other members of the University squash team carry out their plans to enter the Canadian squash championships, which begin on February 6. As the University's matches with Yale take place the next day, the Crimson squash players will have to spend two successive nights on the train. After playing their first round matches in Montreal, they will have to return here the next day to play with Yale, and then journey back to Montreal in time to play their second matches on February...
These games are the first of a series of contests that, continuing until March 9, will decide the intramural championship of the College and of the Graduate Schools. These teams from the various classes of the University are formed from among the men who ordinarily spend part of their afternoons playing basketball in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...Startled, therefore, was I to find in one and the same category these: 'Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers. ..." ("The Press," TIME, Dec. 29). I do not read trash. Comic-strips to me are senseless. I do not chew gum. But of crosswords-I do spend considerable time fitting in the interlocking words on occasion. Others, I think, may feel as I do about your classification. Crossword puzzles and indulgence therein have met no end of favor in a variety of circles. They are worthy of better bedfellows than literary trash, comic-strips, chewing...