Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delhi. From Bombay, whither sped the Seven Wise Men, plunging 700 miles into the interior, on a special, troop-guarded train? Naturally their objective was New Delhi, the superb Viceregal Capital of British India, on which some $150,000,000 has already been spent, so that the more important of its sumptuous white stone buildings already tower and glisten in the Indian...
...year, reputedly, she spent $5,000,000 for social achievements...
...Playwright. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the son of actor James O'Neill, famed across the U. S. in earlier days as Monte Cristo. With his trouping father and a devoted mother, not an actress, he spent staccato years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports...
...members of the Dance Committee spent several days in New York interviewing well-known orchestra leaders. Among those treated with were Roger Wolfe Kahn, Don Voorhees, Ben Bernie and others, but after thoroughly weighing the respective advantages it was decided to engage Markels...
...Having started our year with so progressive a platform as this (one involving humor, reviewer's note), we are humiliated to end it with the following confession. So far from having taught anything, we seem to have spent all our time learning things. (Reviewer questions this.) All sorts of things, such as that perhaps Prexy knows more than we do about the business of being Prexy, that the reading period is just as well off, maybe better with reading assignments, and that Radcliffe girls like to look that way. Further that a large majority of College Comic editors eventually commit...