Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advent of specialization with its attendant manifestations, however, has changed this conception to a considerable degree. He who would succeed must now begin serious work almost in his Freshman year, and must spend his summers acquiring practical experience in the profession of his choice, or he is left far behind in the race. He is in close touch with Business Conditions, and his waking moments are ordered by schedule--all of which absolutely precludes any possibility of his attending unproductive musical comedies. If, in the stress of competition, he wishes to break the grinding routine for an hour, he sees...
Three-quarters of a century ago the itinerant American could spend a summer wandering from tiny principality to tinier duchy, in the district made famous in literature by the late Miss Yonge, and could cross, during his peregrinations, at least half a dozen boundary lines. Such places as Sagan and Liechtenstein were not names, but independencies, each with its own little ruler, here a duke and there a baron, and its own code of customs...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Shipping Board to spend $25,000,000 installing Diesel (internal combustion) engines in its vessels...
They left New York March 1, 1923, and returned May 16, having steamed nine thousand miles, and crossed the Equator eight times. Actually less than 100 hours was spent on the islands themselves. It may seem absurd that a scientific expedition should spend so limited a time at its objective. The reader soon learns why. The Galápagos are all but uninhabitable. There is little or no water to be had on the islands. Water both for the boilers and for drinking and personal use had to be carried along. The Noma watered and coaled at Panama, sailed...
...became national champion in China. Although no title tourneys have been held since that year, he has won many doubles and singles championships at Shanghai, Peking, and other sport centers. Mr. Wei and his wife reached San Francisco only last week and came directly to Boston, where they will spend several weeks before sailing to Europe for the Olympic tennis competition...