Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee loomed twice in the news last week-once when five Rockefeller millions were bestowed upon them to help make them a national park (see p. 12), and again when White House whispers said that President Coolidge might spend his summer vacation on a southern eminence with the Great Smokies for his western horizon. Philip S. Henry of Asheville, N. C., had offered President Coolidge the use of "Zealandia," the Henry mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain...
...Then he insured his life for $75,000, picked up a family-less boarder in Manhattan, took him to Westport to paint the Lawson house, drugged him. Mr. Lawson went out to chat with a neighbor, taking care to establish the fact that he was going back home to spend the evening. Then he set fire to his own home and left for Manhattan. The police were to find the bones of the drugged boarder charred beyond all recognition; Mrs. Lawson was then to collect her husband's $75,000 insurance. But the boarder regained consciousness in time...
...experiments tried upon him the average student would appreciate a simplification of education. Until he ceases to be dumbfounded by the intricacies of the paths he is expected to tread and can be shown the objective of his scholastic endeavors, the active--minded youth will continue either to spend more time on his outside activities or drift aimlessly along through his college career...
...been tremendous. No umpire in a World's Series faces an audience harder to please than does a university president, whose acts are viewed by all the world; and no factor of his work is more troublesome than the financial part. The president of the back-country institution must spend far too much of his time visiting well-to-do alumni. President Lowell, on the other hand, is perhaps embarrassed by a flood of riches...
Amanda Lee Beaumont, dean of women at Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va.: "Young women studying to be teachers spend much of their spare time reading up on beauty culture and etiquette in order to attain...