Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening round of the daily academic grind across the Charles. Another, who has trouble in covering large reading assignments, however simple, will not indorse any course in which the facts to be mastered must be gotten through voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves the South Station...
...further decided to lengthen the period of time covered by the facts contest from eight months to ten months. The general character of the competition will remain unchanged. The three hour examinations will not be divided but it is intended to allow contestants to spend the time to their best advantage instead of requiring a certain number of minutes to be spent on each question...
...been detained in carrying out its own wishes by pressure from the Corporation. The doings and deliberations of this body are always cloaked in obscurity and the motivation of its decisions not always apparent. In the present instance, the Corporation's reluctance to let the H. A. A. spend its own money seems unusually inexplicable. In view of the fact that this tightening of the purse strings is likely to affect the bodily welfare of a large share of the student body, it is necessary that a more adequate explanation be given than...
...visit England" because I haven't got the price. Just built a house with what I had and besides I'd rather see Hollywood before Buckingham Palace which you can't get in, I understand. If more Americans would stay home and spend their money with their fellow countrymen, we would not have income tax to worry about...
...newcomers, many people may feel that Senator Couzens' departure from the beaten path is timely. Much can be said about the advantages of a permanent fund for philanthropic purposes. But it is also possible that the seventeen and a half million dollars which the retired automobile manufacturer proposes to spend in the next quarter century will be more advantageous when used in a concentrated form than if strung out indefinitely and administered by future trustees...