Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe. It is more complex and outwardly spectacular, but is by no manner of means even approximately as scientific. Every position in checkers is a problem in pure mathematics. As one who has (in 1906) worked in the upper reaches of differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently) in the study of checkers and in original analysis of published match and tournament games, I may be privileged to speak on this phase. Curiously enough, chess has been almost wholly the choice of the intelligensia (real and fancied) and has been given, of course, widest...
...Irvin Cobb's only daughter. Her looks are from her pretty mother's side. About as big as a minute?an exciting minute?she took to writing when other girls her age were seeing how their hair looked "up." The pleasant New York landscape (near Ossining) amid which she spent her 'teens is distinguished also by the estate of Publisher George A. Doran...
...Freshman Instrumental Club, giving its second concert, will play at Brattle Hall on May 18. The club has spent the past months practicing for its concerts to be given at the end of this month...
Such a cry went up at Budapest last week when Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen of Hungary returned from two weeks spent visiting Signor Mussolini at Rome and said: "My Government will undertake in the immediate future a thorough study of the Fascist system, especially its social aspects. . . . We shall then adopt those Fascist reforms which have been tested and found practicable...
...hard feeling which marked the end of the trial, Aaron Sapiro and his lawyer, William H. Gallagher, had leading roles. They insinuated that the Ford attorneys had forced a mistrial to prevent Henry Ford from taking the witness stand. Incidentally, Mr. Sapiro was no doubt annoyed to have spent a round sum of money-only to find far distant the $1,000,000 which he hopes to get from Mr. Ford because of certain anti-Jewish articles published in the Dearborn Independent (TIME, March 21, 28). It did not seem likely that a new trial could be arranged before next...