Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common complaint heard often from the followers of academic pathways is that so much time must be spent on studies that there is little left for acquiring our education. Though, to put it mildly, this is an exaggeration, the fact remains that for the Student Vagabond at least, the week-end offers a bright and golden opportunity from wanderings from the strictly academic pastures into regions where, to continue the metaphor, he may feed upon the more tender verdure of the art galleries and drink of the sparkling streams of music...
Eight or nine years ago Palmer H. Craig was working for his doctors' degree at the University of Cincinnati. He had majored in physics so his thesis consisted chiefly of reports on numerous experiments. He spent weeks on experiments of different kinds. Some were failures, some were partially successful. He labored hard for he was interested in his work...
...Robinson, up-and-doing Dayton druggist, in whose historic store the Scopes trial crowds spent much time and money, is president of the Bryan Memorial University Association. And in Manhattan, last week, newsgatherers discovered one of many local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm...
...home in Swampscott, Mass., suddenly. He was sitting at the dinner table, talking with his two faithful Chinese servants when Death came. His father began buying up cod liver oil during the Civil War. Charles expanded the industry, but rarely talked about it in his later years. He spent his time traveling about the U. S., enjoying the cinema in his private theatre. He rented or bought every famed film, including the banned "Fatty" Arbuckle ones. When President Coolidge was summering at Swampscott in 1925, friends of Mr. Phillips suggested he invite the President to his cinema exhibitions. Said...
...first aim is seriously to be questioned. There are no details to be found as to how the money collected is actually spent in this effort. From what can be learned, it is more than possible that the methods of the Federation work directly to controvert a good intention. The operation of the Fund in Russia is a case in point, where little money is sent in the first place, and where, on the other hand, there is said to the discrimination in favor of certain economic and religious creeds that are not universally accepted, and whose support entails more...