Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ashes of a prophet so dishonred in his own country that he spent many a year in prison, were last week the object of celebrations in Germany...
...Burchell, although English by birth, has spent much of his life in Italy, and is a personal friend of Premier Mussolini...
...advertising man offer you his compliments on the sterling honesty with which your magazine is edited? I refer to two items appearing on your business page, TIME, April 18, in which you state that William C. Durant "spent $21,000 to advertise in 48 newspapers in 29 states" that Sir Charles Higham has come to the United States to "spend 5200,000 on advertising India tea in U. S. newspapers...
...spent this winter at The Mayflower in Washington and while there of course came in contact with a number of gentlemen who lived at the hotel, and think I must have heard this winter, at least a dozen make the same comment, in regard to your biased political attitude...
...Hoovers, of course, consider their sweeper the best of all. They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars finding out just where dirt accumulates in carpets and the best way of getting such dirt out of carpets. And they have their machine to get rid of that dirt. Many a judge of housework has approved the Hoover. Thousands have bought it. It had never been entered in a contest, before the Sesquicentennial Exposition, without gaining the best prize offered. These tests and exploits are described in a volume, Hoover?The Story of a Crusade...