Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letters reveal the torment, and in the last years of his existence he wrote to her that the happiest moments of his life had been spent with...
...Woodward, also a novelist,* spent six years producing his biography of Washington. His pen has not the iconoclasm of Rupert Hughes, but it is equally scholarly. Mr. Hughes uses 494 pages to bring his hero to the age of 30; Mr. Woodward in 460 makes a brilliant sketch of Washington, flanked by the colonies in peace and in revolt, and many another bigwig of the Revolutionary...
...college migrates for two week--ends, and gives up studying for a brief period, only to return to Hanover physically and mentally exhausted. No harm done. Perhaps not. But for the good of the undergraduate body, it might not be a had idea if the evening was spent betwixt sleeping and intellectual activity. Let the freshmen attend the rally they have never blundered through one as yet. But let the rest of the college enjoy the evening they can save their laughter to better advantage for the next week end." The Dartmouth...
...recent changes taking place among some of the huge glaciers of Alaska are phenomena of considerable interest to science at the present time," stated W. O. Field '26 in an interview with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. During the past summer, he and B. S. Wood '25 spent a considerable amount of time studying the radical changes occurring in Glacier Bay, Alaska, where with a few exceptions, the ice-fields are retreating at a very rapid rate...
...Buddha, suddenly change his course of life from that of a prince to that of a begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die an eternal death upon the Cross, as did Christ. Instead he spent nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came to him to follow that which they preferred or to which they were born. "God," said...