Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Giannini has just returned from a concert tour in Europe, where the music world of Paris, London and Berlin acclaimed her as one of the greatest living sopranos. She is an American born and lives in Brooklyn, New York, although she has spent many years in study abroad...
...James has spent many years in archeological research, and will portray the forces which led to the crucifixion of Jesus...
...virtue of the Emperor." Therefore last week when the people of Japan set about the funeral of the late Emperor Yoshihito (TIME, Jan. 3), they very properly proceeded as though they were escorting a god to his last rest. Expense. Four million yen ($2,000,000) was spent on the funeral. Pomp. Red and gold automobiles for members of the Imperial House, two special railway stations, innumerable hand-tooled pavilions, a funeral railway car, a vast funeral hearse (TIME, Jan. 10), and some 20 miles of road and railroad were built-will never be used again. Numbers. Princes, ambassadors, nobles...
Pupils enrolled (of every variety) 27,389,170 Teachers (all kinds) 1,000,000 Amount spent last year $2,386,889,132 Value of plants $6,462,531,367 No. of school buildings 263,280 One-room schools (included above) 157,034 Public high schools (included above) 22,500 Teachers' colleges 89 State normal* schools 114 Private normal schools 67 City normal schools 29 Colleges and universities under public control 144 Colleges and universities under private control...
...such publicity the society is soliciting $1,000,000 to assure an annual income of $50,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has already given $125,000, Edward S. Harkness $100,000, and other rich men enough money to make up $536,000. Of this $100,000 had to be spent last year to pay the expenses of world cancer authorities who came to the International Symposium on Cancer Control at Lake Mohonk, N. Y., last September (TIME, Oct. 4) and to solicit more donations...