Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service and the personal losses which they have often sustained through leaving their private pursuits are as regrettable as they are unavoidable. C'est la guerre. We have heard much concerning the inefficient provision for the real sufferers of the war--the disabled; if the Government has money to spend, let it spend it for the benefit of those who have lost more than time and position...
...Crimson hockey squad held its last practice before the Princeton game yesterday and will leave this afternoon at 1 o'clock to face the Tigers at the Philadelphia Ice Palace tomorrow night. The University men will spend tonight at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City and will go on to Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon...
...question is whether those who do not attend these public discussions because, although granting the importance of self-education on such topics as disarmament they consider them to be a waste of time, are sincere. Do they keep away because they are able to spend the time more profitably otherwise, or merely because they are, let us say, inclined to shrink from the prospects of intellectual efforts which these meetings require? Sincerity on this point is impossible to determine; yet it is our belief that in cases where a man has never attended any meeting of this character his sincerity...
...Empire, from Lake Titicaca on one hand to Gar-liccodor in the South, at great sacrifice and expense send their children to this fortress of wisdom. . . . It is said," he continues, (facetiously, no doubt) "that on their periodic visits at home these youthful prodigles are inconsolable, and spend their time bemoaning the length of their vacations, which keep them from their beloved halls of knowledge." His entertaining narrative goes on to describe in glowing terms their advanced ideas, their complete and efficient equipment, their artistic as well as scholarly development, and their system of administration, all of which, he declares...
...that he was one of sixty-five competitors for the post of editor. He was undergoing a strenuous ten weeks of trial and emulation, so strenuous that already some forty had fallen out of the race. At Oxford I doubt if you would find six undergraduates who would spend ten minutes competing for the post of editor. In fact, my recollection is that at the close of the academic year, when the editorial chair of the Isis was about to become vacant, the outgoing editor used to prowl about the university vainly beseeching student after student to fill the thing...