Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undaunted by Mayor Thompson's unfriendliness, the Lowden boom continued. While Mr. Lowden spent another quiet week at Sinnissippi, rounded off by a trip to Evanston to see the Northwestern University drub Iowa 12 to 0,* his name was formally entered for the Indiana primaries and his manager, State Senator Clarence F. Buck, reached Washington, D.C., full of confidence after a tour of the Midwest. Mr. Buck denied that Mayor Thompson would be actively unfriendly. Mr. Buck said that the industrial East was "lining up" behind Mr. Lowden. Literature to accelerate this "lining up" was issued, setting forth...
...succeeded his father, the 16th Earl, who was noted for his generosity, his stables and his conservative manners; he referred always to King Edward as "the King, my august master." The present Earl was educated at Wellington College and spent his early years in the army, holding many frilled, gold-laced positions. He entered politics with little enthusiasm and no ambition. Appointed Postmaster General in 1903, he applied his ponderous brain to the telephone system and subsequently nationalized it, the wisdom of which step has been disputed ever since...
...next era in his life was spent as an exiled revolutionary. In 1908 he had met Trotsky in Vienna and together they founded the Pravda, now flourishing in Moscow under the editorship of Nikolai Bukharin. On one of his many trips to Russia under a pseudonym he was taken prisoner and exiled for life to Siberia. The 1917 revolution freed him. Returning to Petrograd, he became a member of the municipal council under the Kerensky regime, and a few months later became one of the leading Bolshevist victors...
...departure Charles Darwin was still convinced of the immutability of species. He had read the fabulous evolutionary theories of Lamarck, based on the "longing" of species to change or improve. These he considered, as did most other repu table naturalists of the period, pure pishtosh. But eight years spent among the strange leaves and unbelievable beetles of South America, among the cannibalistic Fuegian savages (with three of whom, notably one Jemmy Button, he became intimate), among the corals of the Pacific Islands and the animals and fish that swarmed in the dark oceans, made him less certain. He foresaw that...
...methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which may be an asset to some but is certainly not an intellectual necessity for all, is frequently considered so valuable that it cannot be sacrificed, even though the ultimate goal be Honors...