Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arbitration at the Hague, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Gray in August, 1925. The other U. S. delegates to the Hague Court are Elihu Root and John Bassett Moore. Mr. Hughes arrived at the White House a few days after his appointment to spend the weekend...
...Will Rogers, funnyman, self-styled President's unofficial ambassador to Europe, telegraphed Mr. Coolidge that he would like to have a few minutes' chat with him. Forthwith, the President, who has recently been revealing his human side to the nation, invited Mr. Rogers to spend the night at the White House. The funnyman arrived, dined, told some of his "Worst Stories," slept, left the next morning. Mr. Rogers then informed the press: "I guess I was too much for him. We sat around in the living-room upstairs, swapping yarns, but by 8 o'clock he started...
Obviously this is a matter of grave concern. In some way, these yokels and morons must be made into men and women of real ideals, into human beings. To this task these men feel called. For the good of the American public, they are willing to spend their lives pointing out the faults of the genus Americana. These prophets will indicate the way, will lead American to the promised land, will ensconce the American citizen on the throne of learning, culture and refinement. The vita activa finds candidates still...
Since leaving Queen's College, Oxford, in 1907 Dean Sperry has kept in close touch with his university and is anticipating pleasant spring in the enviorons of Oxford. After he has completed the Psex Hall lecture he plans to spend the summer traveling through England and on the continent accompanied by his family...
...Sometimes these teams "bought" college players with big reputations to strengthen their lineups; sometimes they developed players who were afterwards "bought" by colleges. It was common practice for the big universities then, as it is for the smaller ones still, to entice able players to enroll as undergraduates, and spend six or seven years, to be graduated at length with a Bachelor's degree awarded, presumably for prowess in Sacred Studies and Botany. But before the birth of the Twentieth Century the universities began to organize, to make treaties with one another; football, already moderately standardized, became a science...