Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peru, taking the Inca-fortune that is his due for being a bullfighter?the best bullfighter in all Spain. Unnoticed in Manhattan, where he stopped on his way a few weeks ago, Juan's advent in Peru nearly caused a national holiday. When he comes back to Manhattan to spend some of his Inca-gold before returning to Spain, he may or may not become a U. S. fad. It matters not. At home, and in South America, he is a hero, a Pizarro, something...
...from Cambridge that they will be unable to join their families for the festivities during the Christmas Recess. Of this number, 200 live on the Pacific Coast and 24 in the various United States possessions. Some of them, of course, have friends in the east with whom they can spend the holidays, but most of them find it impossible to do so, and it is for their benefit that the various entertainments are being planned...
...process of reclaiming the marsh land on Soldiers Field has forced Dennis Enright, caretaker of the grounds, to spend all week pumping water into the Charlesbank hockey rinks. The drains laid to fix the marsh have probably drained the rinks also, since it has been feared for some time that they are in a leaky condition...
Professor Koffka has been invited by the Graduate School of Education to spend three days here lecturing on a new and very important movement which has started in Germany and which may affect educational methods all over the world. He is Acting Professor of Educational Psychology at Cornell University this year, and has therefore had ample time to study and compare American universities to those in Germany...
...have received a list of English books through the courtesy of the Harvard Cooperative Society, and nothing would give more pleasure than to buy all of them, or nearly all. But this must be a pleasure deferred, though if anything would make a journalist spend his money, it is the professional pride roused by the offer of "The Sensitive Plant." Books are always a temptation that must be resisted...