Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid pink chrysanthemums and maidenhair fern, and to the melodious murmuring of the Marine Band Orchestra, the Cabinet et ux. dined at the White House. It was the traditional fiesta which Presidents always give their hardworking Secretaries after the latter have spent a busy season preparing reports, and before the hurly-burly of a Congressional session begins...
...principal figure of the story is Bachelet, the soldier's father, admirably played by Mr. Thomas Shearer. In the prologue we see him as an obscure but sincere character--still a clerk after a lifetime in his office spent watching his contemporaries promoted over him by the use of influence. The war and its injustice are intolerable to him. Then the news of his son's heroic death comes to him, and everything seems to have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human...
...only $200,000 to spend on marketing surveys which various sections of the country are demanding. The bureaus' greatest domestic concern is to reduce waste in distributing commodities. The total value of U. S. business transactions each year approximates 80 billion dollars. Of this 10% is spent on inefficient methods of distribution...
...cruise, 20 days to be spent wholly or partially in roaring airplanes, was announced, last week at London by the veteran cross-channel firm, Imperial Airways...
...party will sail from New York on June 18 on board the S. S. Cleveland, proceeding straight to Cherbourg, and from there by rail to Paris, where some time will be spent in sight seeing. The battle fields of France will be studied and the influence of their topography on the victories of the allies in the last war. Especial attention will be paid to the region around the Paris basin, where Professor Davis, one of Harvard's best known geologists, did considerable work on erosion...