Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Hudson has recently spent a year of travel in Europe, Africa, and the East, and McDonald spent last summer in Russia...
Assembled Animalcula. Dr. Charles Manning Child of the University of Chicago spent last summer at the Scripps Biological Institute? at Miramar, Calif. There he collected some tiny animals of the sponge family (corymorpha, helmet-shaped bodies) ; ground them in a mortar until they were shapeless pulp; bolted the mess through fine silk. In the strained liquid were living corymorpha cells, single or in groups of small number. After the liquid stood a while, the cells collected into small spheres. Many of the spheres?assembled from originally different animals?developed into complete & healthy corymorphae...
...play, Hamlet's greeting to his college mate Horatio was: "But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?" At that German university Martin Luther taught philosophy in 1508. Hamlet, before his father's murder had muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother...
...business is to hoist dumbwaiters and trundle garbage pails, beating upon them. He was numbered among janitors who waddle through the hallways of innumerable college dormitories. To alumni a legend of competence, to faculty members a jovial rock of propriety, to students a genial but unyielding tyrant, he had spent 54 years of his life upon the campus of the College of the City of New York. As his father had done when Michael Bonney was only a small, destructive hobbledehoy, he gave his time to tidying bedrooms and fixing lamps, sweeping up broken bottles, locking doors and reading magazines...
Last week sparse-haired, big-browed Walter Sherman Gifford, nervously alert A. T. & T. President, told a convention of railroad and utility commissioners at Dallas, Tex., that to cut a melon was poor policy. Said he: "Earnings must either be spent for the enlargement and improvement of the service furnished or the rates charged for the service must be reduced." And the A. T. & T. stock (which had risen during the year from a low price of 149¼ to a high price of 185½) sank to 173 as expectations of added profits vanished. Brokers trading...