Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor Franz Josef spent a sizable fortune in suppressing every sort of evidence and comment. All the servants at Mayerling were paid well to emigrate under assumed names. It is not even known with certainty where the Baroness Vetschera was buried...
...advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper towers up, its facade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening." The News commented editorially: "While five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention a flock of lesser projects, the landscape is necessarily cluttered up a bit, and as a lot of the work is being done on the street TIME'S observer observed, he might very easily, being the sort of observer he is, have...
...holding life together" in relief stations behind the lines. She is a Ph. D., having studied at Ohio State University (during the presidency of her father, Dr. James Hulme Canfield) and at Columbia University. She married John Redwood Fisher, a Columbia football captain. With her artist mother, she has spent years abroad. In Rome she knew Mme. Montessori and wrote A Montessori Mother which was widely translated. Her two grown daughters-Mrs. Fisher is now 47-bear witness to an intelligent upbringing. Her study is on a Vermont farm. Other books that have come from it: The Squirrel Cage...
Their Royal Highnesses, Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden and his wife, Princess Louise, spent the week in relaxation at Honolulu, proceeded to Japan...
...other figures he suggests those pictures that cartoonists like to manufacture-a grave, photographed face, under which have been drawn a midget body, arms, and legs. Power often lives most bristlingly in little men. Mr. Wiley gives one immediately a sense of power, poised and acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social contacts than his associates; he is often seen at smart parties, gravely watching from a portière, or dancing with a lady larger than himself...