Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years spent at college are in many ways the most impressionable of a man's life, not only intellectually, but emotionally and spiritually as well. To the average undergraduate "Christo of Ecclesiae" no longer fills his emotional and spiritual needs. Philosophy, merely as a science, does not fill it either. Contact with the inspirational personality of some faculty member may very well take the place of both, or at least tide over the critical period. Certainly it is a conclusion well worth thinking about, both for those who choose, the faculty and those who work under their leadership...
Strange it is that this "standpat" Republican should have been born in Guilford, N. C., in 1836 in the reign of Andrew Jackson, whose Democratic pals spilled cider on the White House carpets. Then he spent his boyhood near Terre Haute...
After the fall of Cannonism, after a split with Theodore Roosevelt, after a squall with Samuel Gompers, "Uncle Joe" spent eight years (1915-23) in Congress in the subdued role of a mere member. Then he returned to Danville, to see how his Second National Bank* was getting along, to sing his old favorite songs...
Since William K. Vanderbilt reputedly spent in excess of $1,000,000 in connection with the marriage of his daughter to "Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
...medicine and the clergy, obtained the post of naturalist on the cruiser Beagle, was gone five years observing and exploring, married his cousin (one of the pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered ten sons and daughters, spent 20 years amassing proof for his hypothesis, published The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), died in 1882 having sorely suffered from chronic indigestion for 40 years...