Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislative Hobbies: A resolution authorizing the Government to undertake extensive research in the cause and cure of cancer ("Millions are spent on hog diseases, why not a few on people?"); a bill to place Mexicans and other Latin Americans under the immigration quota, so that they can no longer freely enter...
Five trial judges deliberated less than half an hour, then brought in their verdict: Thirty years in prison, of which three years are to be spent in solitary confinement...
Architect Wright was born in 1869 on a Wisconsin farm where he spent his precocious childhood tending sheep. With no formal education he informally studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Although he received no degree he became unusually proficient in that profession. Twenty years ago his reputation in architecture was worldwide...
...above Lake Geneva, Switzerland, one evening last week, is not a matter of record. He might have been thinking of his U. S. tour, scheduled to begin on Oct. 22, or he might simply have been reviewing with an after-dinner pleasure the events of that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens...
After a week and a half of steady drilling in fundamentals, Head Freshman Coach A. E. French '29 has cut his squad down to between 40 and 50 men. Considerable time has been spent on blocking, tackling, charging, and dummy scrimmage, and there has been also a great deal of individual instruction, the groups of linemen, ends, and backs working out with their respective coaches. Signal practice has been stressed, and as yet there have been no long scrimmages...