Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans were stated to be in a difficult position, having spent a great deal of the estimated $150,000 Mr. de Valera raised earlier in the year in the U. S., which is said to have aided him importantly in capturing 44 seats at the last election. Observers said that it will be difficult for him to raise money now and that the party is likely to suffer as a result. However, Mr. de Valera announced that he is well prepared, and as an indication of the strenuous fight he intends to wage, Republican conventions for naming candidates were held...
...bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...
...said two Jewish scientists connected with Hebrew University, Jerusalem-Dr. Fritz Bodenheimer of the Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures...
...rawnch and a ranch. A ranch pays, and a rawnch doesn't, but I am not going to give away which my place is." The Canadian tour of Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin diverged from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin party spent a few days at Banff, superb Alberta sports centre now being developed by the Cana dian Pacific System. At Banff jovial Mr. Baldwin submitted to initiation rites making him a "blood brother" of the local Stoney Indians who christened him "Sitting Eagle...
From the millions of dollars which people spend upon themselves, another million has been separated, to be spent upon others. Dame Julia Lewisohn Henry, daughter of Leonard Lewisohn, New York, dying in London, bequeathed $1,093,520 for Anglo-American university scholarships...