Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foot and horse travel limited the area, and in turn the population, of the pre-railroad cities of nearly a hundred years ago. The distance that the people would live away from the business center of the city was a matter of the time they were willing to spend in travel--to their occupations in the morning and to their homes at night. This time limit has always appeared to be about one hour. An hour's travel in a man and horse civilization meant three or four miles out for foot travellers. This was the real town limit...
...evening. Can one get an idea of the art of a poet or a painter as easily? If the poet writes in a language foreign to us we must expend more effort than is needed to understand the music. In the case of art it is easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous "Blue Boy" can be seen in his protrait of Count Rumford, recently bequeathed to the University. Anyone who wishes...
...team will spend Wednesday night at the Walton Hotel in Philadelphia and will meet the University of Pennsylvania team on Thursday. The Quaker team was defeated 7-0 by the Oxford-Cambridge twelve last week, but otherwise has had a victorious season to date...
...Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, assigned annually to a Senior to enable him to spend a few months in European travel after his graduation, has been awarded to Wesley Goodwin Brocker '22 of Lindstrom, Minn...
...Instability of rates", said Mr. Hines, "is a public menace. In fact eight percent of the population is directly concerned with what the railroads pay for labor. When it is realized that the railroads spend about four and one-half billion dollars yearly, it is apparent what an enormous influence the industry exerts on the country...