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Word: spendings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I meditate on the awful junk that I carry around in my pouch masquerading under the name of "magazines" and so forth, I often wonder why apparently sane people do not take the $5 that they annually spend for a number of worthless publications, and concentrate that amount on a subscription to TIME. Every time I've sent you 55 I have received $95 worth of knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Champion Tweddell is a golfer who has the patience to spend two minutes over a two-foot putt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Golf | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...itineraries have been so arranged that every individual will make both a broad survey and a special investigation. The whole delegation will spend about ten days in Leningrad and Moscow and then break up into smaller groups for five weeks special study in the provinces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Delegation Goes to Russia | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

Anthony H. G. Fokker, upon seeing the monoplane America, which he designed and built for transatlantic flight, brought out of its hangar in a bright new coat of paint, threw up his hands and cried: "What! I spend all my time trying to take weight off the machine and they put on 40 Ib. of paint! Terrible! Terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE: May 30, 1927 | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...Jove, Author Halliburton explains, angrily tossing thunderbolts because a whimsical, gay, incorrigible, dramatic, inspired, etc. young Amercian is at the beetling, rugged, sacrosanct, fierce, rugged, granite pinnacle of Mt. Olympus and proposes to spend the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Play-boy | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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