Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tender years when the nature of the child is expanding, when its vivid imagination is struggling for expression, the curriculum must give it elbow-room instead of cramping and stunting it within the bounds of the three R's. And certainly, as one educator says, when the American people spend twenty two billions of dollars yearly on luxuries, they should be willing to spend more than a single billion a year in educating the coming strength of the nation...
...that the country is in need of credits, and that if the peasants yielded their grain the same amounts as at present could be shipped with less disastrous results to the country. This is a typical Soviet attitude. Meanwhile, the world waits to learn how the Russian government will spend what credits it is now obtaining at the price of starvation...
...seething undercurrent of discontent in Lisbon, and it is feared that the nation may be heading for another revolution. (The last one was attempted in 1921.) High cost of living is the principal cause of complaint. Though the workmen are earning good wages, they complain that they have to spend them all on food. The price of bread is said to have increased by 150 per cent, and other foodstuffs have been proportionately advanced...
...ENCHANTED APRIL-the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden-Doubleday ($1.90). Four London women, leaving their husbands behind them, spend an enchanted April in an Italian castle. The tiny rapier of the author's wit, her penetration and her sympathy, give the characters reality and the setting charm...
...high school age can be brought each year from Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and the Orient to our shores, here to be welcomed and given a year of education in fifty or more of our best American schools. Further in vision I see one hundred American boys spending a year in the five foreign environments from which our guests have come. I believe that a boy of seventeen or eighteen, who has pretty well finished his preparation for the university, who is mature, alert and reliable, could to very great advantage spend a year in Europe or the Orient...