Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inventors. A shy man, pallid from years spent indoors over books and work tables, attended the demonstrations in Schenectady last week. He was Daniel McFarlan Moore, 58, known well wherever electrical technicians congregate, but little elsewhere. Graduated from Lehigh University in 1889 he at once found work with Thomas Alva Edison's Edison Co. Later he organized his own light and electric companies and, after 18 years, sold them to General Electric. Four years ago he invented vacuum bulbs used in telephotography (sending still pictures by electricity or radio); three years ago he improved the bulb so that...
...Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D. C., chose last week a new secretary (i.e., commander-in-chief), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot. Technically, he is an astrophysicist. To a few laymen, he is known as the man who has spent his adulthood studying the sun. Why? Because he wishes to forecast weather, weeks or months in advance, by discovering what the gases around the sun have to do with its heat radiation; also to find some feasible means of harnessing the sun's energy in man-made machines...
...newly organized brokerage house; when he came out of the navy, where he had been an ensign, he was aware of certain defects in his financial education that might forbid the eminence which he desired. Instead of rejoining his firm, he joined the Chase Securities Corporation, then spent a year in the credit department of the bank. So doing, he attracted the favorable attention of the president of the Chase Bank, Albert Henry Wiggin...
Miss Roberts, having spent her literary apprenticeship in poetry, is forever bringing recurring poetic rhythms to her prose. The result is not, fortunately, that strange thing called "Iyricprose"; it is very beautiful and its melody is very simple, although the reader must be aware that an enormous complexity has given rise to this simplicity. Miss Roberts' medium is effective; her mastery over it demonstrates the possibility of a good poet being a good novelist. And "My Heart And My Flesh" is quite worthy of the author's standard-which is no mean degree of praise...
...What?" he roared. "I can't? If you are sitting on this imitationleather lounge one reading period, plus a Christmas vacation spent with textbooks, from today, I shall walk up to you with a message from my tutor. No one can say that, because others have failed, I cannot bridge the Chasm that separates us from our loved ones...