Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years are not sufficient to make a man thoroughly acquainted with all that a skillful physician should know. Well-educated, scientific physicians are needed, and such men Harvard should send out, but three years is too short a time to accomplish this in. Yet most of those who have spent four years in a college think that they have neither time nor money to devote to another four year's course, so they try to do all the work in three years. They do not realize that there is plenty of room for well-educated doctors, but no room...
Professor Dana, of Yale, last summer visited Hawaii, where he spent a week studying the crater of Kilauea. He had examined the volcano forty-seven years ago, and found that it had not changed as much as he had in the intervening years.- N. Y. World...
...account of the threatening weather. The cost of uniforms per man was slightly less than that of '89's uniforms. Whatever is absolutely necessary for the needs of the nine is procured at once. This is the purpose for which the money was collected. Not a cent has been spent on the pleasure of the men, and the statement that the nine is to view the races at the expense of the class is new to me, and certainly no sane person would accredit so ridiculous an idea. I have encountered none of the "bitter feeling" which "'90" states...
...over to the Modern Language Association the Skagit, Nootsack Stelaquamish. Snokomish and Snoqualmie Rivers. Often the improvement was of use to nobody, as in the case of one river which could be carried by a twelve-inch drain. In another case, the Fox and Winconsin Rivers, the government had spent two and a half millions on improvement of use only to a water-power company. He criticised the system of beginning many improvements and completing almost none, and the interference of Congress with the Secretary...
...statistics will be so much more valuable if complete, that I venture to hope that those who have not answered yet may still incline to do so. Let nobody hesitate to write because he has spent more than he likes to think of and has not kept perfect accounts. These are important facts. A careful estimate will serve my purposes very well, and may perhaps better those of my correspondent. Till all the returns are in, a detailed exhibit of results cannot be given. But it is evident already that the style of living here is much simpler than...