Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus has merely stood and chanted with perhaps slight swaying motion. In my chorus, however, we have developed rythmical dance movements, which I believe approximate very closely those used by the original Greek choruses. It took a long time to evolve these dance movements. My son had to spend several weeks in the British Museum studying the figures on the Grecian vases, before at last he was able to obtain a practical conception of the original dances...
...that only a very small percentage of them ever write books, which measured by the standards of the big publishers, have a large sale. Bookstores will not carry that kind of book in stock, and as publishers' advertising is largely for the benefit of the bookstores the publisher spends little money in advertising it; he uses his appropriation for the books of larger possibilities, and he cannot afford to have his appropriation for the books of larger possibilities, and he cannot afford to have his sales force spend much time on it either. The fact is, therefore, that it really...
Granting, then, the existence of an evil, what are the reasons and what are the remedies? Mr. Lamont believes that the private school man has the money, the training, the leisure and the inclination to spend his time on extra-curriculum pursuits. But there is something more fundamental. The average under graduate knows that "success" in college is not attained by scholastic records and he believes that the same is true of life. There is no reason for him to wish to belong to the Phi Beta Kappa; ambition will inspire him with every desire to succeed in extra-curriculum...
...Times of London published a report from its Washington correspondent that the U. S. Government was preparing to spend $150,000,000 upon the purchase of food in the U. S. for Germany. The Coolidge Administration subsequently gave a "positive denial" of the report...
...With currency values ever decreasing in this financial chaos, the one thing you must not do, in Germany, of course, is to save your money. It is for that reason that people are so eager to draw their marks out of the banks and spend them before their value has decreased any further. Germany is moved by a feverish activity of spending, which is often misinterpreted as prosperity by those who do not understand the true conditions...