Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high head. Anybody who gets the habit of shaking hands the way he has can't last long. Indeed I no Ionger can call him an asset to the state. We've spleened on him ever since he began to spend government money on a house detective for his son at college. That's carrying things too far. Anyway he should have sent John to our own state university and kept the money in the state...
...John Coolidge, accompanied by his secret service guard,* Col. E. W. Starling, returned from Amherst College to spend Christmas vacation with his parents...
Amid general enthusiasm the Budget Committee then announced that they favored the Marshal's proposal to spend one-third of the revenues of the State on the army. The pleasure of the Deputies at Marshal Pilsudski's bid for their support was evident. The magnetism of his personality sufficed to overcome their resentment at such actions on his part as his sending (TiME, Nov. 15) a detachment of soldiers to march 'round and 'round the Parliament Building to prove his supremacy. As dawn broke upon last week's midnight meeting enough Deputies had collected...
...suggestion for theological seminaries is this: let young gospelers spend a year learning, as young medics learn, in hospitals, asylums and almshouses, to practice the application of their beliefs upon the sick and troubled.* For medical schools: courses in professional ethics. Besides the lessons learned from the silent examples of fine doctors, let there be instruction in the inconsistencies of the Hippocratic oath, in the unwritten laws on fees, contract practice, birth control, state medicine, abortion, advertising, competition...
...associates himself with a trail system of any size, he will find so many problems and matters of interest that they will exclude every other activity if given rein. The lore and the lure of the trail are equally endless. The write can testify that one may spend years on the matter of trail signs, always finding it interesting and always learning something new. For no one yet knows the best type of sign for trails...