Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marines when they won the Service Championship for the second successive year. ¶ In a conference with the press, the White House Spokesman last week revealed that few people realize the magnitude of Government expenses. Take the humble lead pencil, said he, $125,000 per year is spent for that item alone...
...then plunge into controversial measures. Representative Madden was emphatic in denying any slashing of Army and Navy budgets. Said he: "I have seen a lot in the papers that we would try to squeeze the flesh away from the bone. There is no intention of doing that. . . . We have spent more than any country in the world on aviation. If we haven't got the best aviation in the world we haven't got the best management." The House Ways and Means Committee assembled, began to hear arguments on tax reduction plans and alien property settlement. Representative John...
This was elementary physics. Was it possible that Georges Claude had become senile, to annoy the august Academy of Science with piffle? Steam might operate a turbine at the Equator. But there would need be some cooling device to condense the spent steam. Where would he get ice, or cool drafts, in the tropics? He had the answer ready...
...seats; elevators, even to the cheapest gallery seats, lounge rooms, the music room for people waiting to be seated in the theatre. The rug is lighted so that latecomers can find a softly glowing path to their seats in a darkened theatre. But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief of Thomas A. Edison, who presented the first practical cinema reel (1894), scenes of prize fights, fencing matches, dances and vaudeville skits...
Late in life, Thomas Jefferson decided to establish a university, and did so. The University of Virginia is a monument to this ambition. He spent his fortune lavishly on erection of buildings, selection of a capable faculty, and in attempting to make his university a true seat of newworld culture. But his solution of the food problem, of so much interest to the modern collegian, remains a secret. There is, on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener, a draft of a letter written by the Great Democrat to a friend concerning menus at the University...