Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...longshoremens strike has tied up ocean travel. New York has been spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public...
...idea in "The Hanging of the Angel" is very neat and the execution rather too full. This is certainly better writing than our average professional output. On the other hand, Mr. Hamblett's idea is better than his method; an excellent concluding sentiment, 'let the energy which might be spent in hating--turn to changing the conditions...
...Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock the second business competition for the CRIMSON, open to Sophomores only, will be inaugurated at the CRIMSON Building. This competition is designed to last 12 weeks, of which the majority of the time will be spent in securing advertisements...
...players were formed into tentative teams and had short scrimmages, but no attempt was made to hold a long, strenuous practice such as will come later in the year. It was the first time on the ice this season for most of the candidates, and the afternoon was spent more in getting back into hockey form than in any effort at team play...
...terms of the scholarship call for a sojourn of at least a year on the continent, spent in studying the architectural works of England, France, Spain, and Italy. Accompanying them was R. H. Kettell '14 who is making a short visit to England for a study of English architecture...