Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhappier than Artie himself. "This place is awful," he moaned. "The noise bounces back from the walls and ceiling until I can't hear what's going on. The musicians get nervous and play louder than ever, and that makes things even worse. We spend weeks rehearsing every little nuance and all we produce is noise...
Under the dorm-commuter system a commuter may spend the night at a dormitory for a minimum fee or, if an affiliate may participate in dormitory activities...
Although Eeriykoot's crime carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, he got only a year, which he will spend as a handyman around the Cambridge Bay police post. His only real punishment will be separation from home. For the primitively clannish Eskimos, that alone, the government hopes, will help make aided suicide an outmoded custom...
...Good Clothes Hanger. Working with a less accomplished model, the photographer might spend hours trying to prod and push her into the proper pose. But not with Lisa. With a dancer's discipline and grace, she responds instantly to the photographer's every direction, almost before it is spoken. Her body (bust and hips 34 in.) is so supple that she can pull in her normally 23-inch waist to 18 inches. She has the gift of mimicry every good model needs, and a keen fashion sense. Once, she appeared 103 times in a single issue...
Before he retired, Stannard and Kennecott directors made sure that they had the right man to replace him. Since they were planning to spend $10 million to help develop gold mines in Africa, they picked Arthur Storke, 54, a mining man with an African background. Storke had trotted the globe and risen to the presidency of Climax Molybdenum Corp. He was an operating director of South Africa's Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., and of Rhodesian Selection Trust, Ltd.; during World War II, as minerals adviser to Britain's Ministry of Supply, he expedited mining operations in South...