Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Painleve has twice been forced to resign as Premier of France since October (TIME, Nov. 9, 30). At present he is War Minister in the Cabinet of M. Briand, and spends his days amid the desperate vexations of trying to conduct the two most unpopular wars ever waged by France (those in Syria and in Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate...
Another way is to take the student and put him on a boat for Europe. In order to pass the course he must spend his first five weekends at places selected from the following list: Versailles, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Saint-Denis, Sevres, Troyes, Amiens, Chartres, the battlefields, Rouen. At the close of the "session," he will travel, in company with his fellow aspirants, for four days through the chateau district of Touraine along the Loire. Then, if he passes an examination, he will receive a credit toward his degree. This way of absorbing historical, architectural and decorative studies has never been...
...subject independent of regular classroom work. The marked increase in reading is prompted by the ever-present professor. In all probability, the greater circulation of books is accompanied by a less thorough perusal. The undergraduate animal, be he tiger or bulldog, Indian or Puritan, is not apt to spend much time on indefinite assignments...
...other advantages," he says, "such a system will be of equal value to the student who acquires knowledge rapidly, as well as to his slower colleague. It is hoped that by the elimination of the class system, the pupil who acquires knowledge less easily will be less reluctant to spend more time in preparation, while the more brilliant scholar will be more willing to spend longer periods in investigation and in specialization...
Like to like and Mr. Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...