Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salary* of the President of the U. S. in advance for 466 years would cost slightly less than the sum† just spent by Great Britain to complete H. M. S. Nelson, most potent of post-War battleships which sailed complete, tested and primed last week, from the yards of her makers at New-castle-on-Tyne. Joyous sirens tooted all adown the Tyne, when the Nelson put to sea; and in British homes many a prideful comparison was made between the most powerful British, U. S., and Japanese battleships: The Nelson The Colorado The Mutsu (BRITAIN) (U.S.) (JAPAN...
...country, and especially its Republican politicians, spent the week recovering from what Pat McKenna, White House doorman since before Calvin Coolidge was even married, described as the greatest shock in all the 24 years of his official life. The shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just...
...majesty, Ahmed Fuad I, King of Egypt, was returning home last week from his state visit at London to the King and Emperor George V (TiME, July 18). King Fuad's route lay from Paris, where he had spent several quiet days, to Rome where he was feted last week by King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini...
From these portents, it appeared how keen and vital is the rivalry of Britain and Italy in Africa. Indeed, both the British and Italian governments have spent sums large enough to be fairly called "excessive" in an effort to entertain King Fuad so sumptuously that the hearts of Egyptians may be sensibly touched in return...
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in pits, caves, quarries, stream beds for vestiges of the creatures who roamed the earth before them, . .. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating a tooth, a bracelet, a, whole dead civilization. . . . Millions of dollars are spent in digging every year. Following are significant efforts and exhumations in the Americas during the past few months...