Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Hardy will be a landmark. The Victorian ago, the decadence of the nineties, the war and its subsequent unsettled period have passed by Thomas Hardy and his most recent book, published a few months ago, has enough recent writing in it to prove his imperturbability. Professor Lowes will spend an hour on this near-century of literary activity, beginning at 11 o'clock in the Germanic Museum...
...first Lieutenant in the Ordinance department, Mr. Hillyer was appointed as assistant in English A, and during the past year has served as an instructor in English. In 1920-21 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Scholarship and was given a leave of absence of a year to spend in Copenhagen. As an undergraduate Mr. Hillyer was editor of the Harvard Monthly honorary editor of the Advocate, a member of the Poetry Society, and winner of the William Garrison Poetry Prize in his Junior year...
...eighteenth century, when a novel appeared, the public used to spend about two months reading it. When the good people of Amesbury-on-the-Tyne, or some other center of learning had finally turned the last page of Richardson's tale, they would ring the village bell to celebrate the tidings that Pamela retained her virtue...
Sirs: It must have thrilled you to know that someone admired TIME so as to spend time over a TIME acrostic (Jos. A. Blum, Feb. 15 issue.) It is therefore a pity that his effort must be red-penciled. There is no such term as "meti?to be measured" in Latin. The correct Latin form is metiri, this being a verb of the fourth conjugation deponent...
...clean-living American would yield to no such opponent. Richards was at the net now, was volleying crisp shots to right and left. He made nine service aces in the first set. But a series of lucky placements by LaCoste, and the evident willingness of the Frenchman to spend all his reduced vitality in a desperate effort at the start, deprived him of the set, 6-4. LaCoste's eyelids, as he mopped his face with a towel, were heavier than ever. The next set would see a change of things. It did. Leaping, slamming, driving, smashing the dissipated...