Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...none too popular in the Democratic South. From West Point, Va., came the report that a Republican appointed as Postmaster there was the recipient of undesirable attention from his customers. They bought large quantities of special delivery stamps and flooded the office with letters which the postmaster had to spend most of the night delivering...
...taxed everybody and everything. By this means he built up an educational fund of almost $2,000,000. With this fund he gathered together efficient teachers and employed an American architect to design school buildings, putting an American in full charge of the construction program. This American is to spend up to $1,000,000 for the building of six modern schools to hold 4,500 pupils. When he finishes, Governor Cesar Lopez de Lara will have a modern school system at his disposition and the State of Tamaulipas will be an educated state-provided always that the Governor remains...
...French are so proud they spend their time deprecating themselves in order to give you an opportunity to contradict them. Don't fail...
...circular tank partly filled with shallow, tepid water. The children sit on a circular bench in the tank with their legs immersed for several hours at a time. The device was suggested by a woman whose little daughter, crippled by the disease, was taken to Florida and allowed to spend much time in the warm water at the beach. The child recovered the use of her limbs and learned to swim. The medical fact underlying the treatment is that moderate heat causes increased blood supply in the parts affected, relieving inflammation and stimulating movement. The method has not yet been...
...National Woman's Party meets again?to spend its 75th birthday at its birthplace, Seneca Falls, N. Y. Most people have not the privilege of choosing their birthplaces. With organizations, however, it is a different matter. Nevertheless, it was more the choice of circumstances than of people that the woman's rights movements was born at Seneca Falls...