Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Randolph Hearst has built another house. It is a squarish house, stolid, concrete, spotted with wide windows, utilitarian. It cost $3,000,000. The money was mostly spent for speed...
...additional incentive. gifts made conditional to the raising of further donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. Gifts made conditional to the raising of further funds also guard the donor against the danger, proved in the past to be very real, of having his money spent on a basement or foundation, the rest of the building being dependent upon pledged funds which often fail to appear...
Commenting on trying Berlin. Gershwin declared that the popular song writer could not even read music Now at the age of 39 he is planning to study music "I told him to do that ten years ago," Gershwin said. "All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique...
Speaking of his career, Mr. Thomas said he was one of the few men who realized in later life dreams of his youth. He has explored Alaska, has been a reporter, a college professor, a literary free lance, and an author. Last year he spent three months flying over 25 European countries, covering a distance of 2500 miles for American newspapers...
...Author was born 43 years ago in Munich. His youth was spent learning about philosophy and literature among the wide avenues and beer gardens of Munich and Berlin. In 1905 he organized a cabal for the furtherance of modern literature ? an institution which was glared at by the fishy eyes of Imperialism. His plays ? especially Vasantasena which played 1000 times in eight years? made his reputation in Germany. The Ugly Duchess, published in England in the able and sensitive translation which is now to be released in the U. S., became vastly popular as had Author Feuchtwanger...