Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were spent on the public schools of Massachusetts last year...
...After a short period of teaching, he decided to study for the Episcopal ministry. Having been pastor of the church of the Advent, and of the church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, he was called in 1869 to the rectorship of Trinity church, Boston. In 1882-83 he spent his vacation in England, preaching in many of the London churches, and also on one occasion before the Queen. He was the first American clergyman to have this honor. In 1886 he was elected assistant bishop of Pennsylvania, but declined the office. His election as Bishop of the diocese...
Spenser was not born of a rich family, but in 1569 he went to Cambridge University, where he spent seven years. After that he lived in nothern England, where he fell in love with one Rosalind. His suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle...
...Ralph has a faculty of being able to spend a week in a portion of the country and coming away with an exhaustive knowledge of it. So, in the present case, he describes a trip down the Mississippi and is geographically as much at home as if he had spent his life going from Cairo to Memphis and back again...
...Club for a dinner. Those who could drag their feet after one another accepted; the rest retired. The dinner was very pleasant and the flow of merry champagne soon warmed out the disappointment. Sunday it snowed. Some of the men went to Church for the Christmas music. The officers spent the day in trying to make arrangements for a concert Tuesday. As may readily be imagined, this was not an ideal Christmas and many a man heartly wished himself home...