Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They were met at the door," said Mr. Page, "by a most engaging and well-informed clergyman, who spent hours in showing them everything. They accidentally discovered as they were coming away that he was 'The Very Reverend and Honourable Lord Bishop of London,' who had come five miles for the pleasure of meeting them. When I next saw him, he said, 'Noble women, whom God sent in our extremity...
...Morris, the man in the red sweater, well known to Harvard football fans for his gymnastic activities as announcer at Soldiers Field during the fall, explained to a Crimson reporter yesterday, the origin of the signals. Mr. Morris has spent 20 years in perfecting and developing his system from a combination of Army and Navy signals and the gestures used on the Stock exchange...
During the past summer Stanton studied in Europe, and spent much time at the Fountainbleau Conservatory. He has brought back several new scores with which the Pierian's programs will be greatly enriched...
...Mather was conducted to the excavation ditch where he spent half a day groping in the swamp ooze to determine whether the skull was complete and whether all the vertebrae of the skeleton were there. He was convinced at once that the find was a mastodon of huge proportions, unusually complete in all its parts. He assisted in naming and arranging the bones that had been found, and in giving directions for the excavation work which was done by workmen with their hands alone in order to avoid injuring the skeleton...
...Gomez's opinions are the result of first-hand knowledge and observation as he has recently spent several months in Mexico...