Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desires "continuance of an unprecedented national prosperity produced by the present Republican majority under the leadership of President Coolidge." How has this prosperity been attained? By- 1) The limitation of arms in the Washington Conference so that tax payers are saved five billion dollars which would otherwise have been spent on the country's naval building program. 2) "A protective tariff sufficiently high to cover the difference between the cost of living here and abroad, 12 per cent lower than the Payne-Aldrich rates, 20 per cent below the Dingley rates and with 60 per cent of all importations...
Harvard. "He found it a college; he left it a university." Europe, in which he spent two of the early and one of the later '60s as a young mathematics and chemistry researcher, conceived the U. S. as an intellectual wilderness with but one stockaded stronghold of pioneer culture, Boston, and a single blockhouse, Harvard. Resolved to alter the basis for this conception, Dr. Eliot declined the treasurership of a big spinning company, taught at Boston Tech and wrote to the magazines attacking U. S. educational methods. He advanced the notion that their curse was uniformity. His pointed strictures...
From February through August, 1919, some four hundred Germans met day after day, in the Theatre at Weimar, Thuringia. They, the National Assembly, dared not foregather in Berlin for fear of mob violence. Fear-spurred, they hastily elected Frederick Ebert first President of the Republic. Deliberate, prudent, they spent six months in evolving the Republican Constitution, consecrated the day of its formal promulgation as a national holiday to be celebrated pompfully each year...
...Mallory lost her title, after a redoubtable struggle, to Miss Wills (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923.) And they reiterated it last week when Mrs. Mallory had eliminated Helen Wills from the New York State championship at Eye. It was Helen Wills second defeat in eight days. She spent her energy early-in the first set, the only set she won. The court was like an oven, but Helen Wills was cool. She has never, since the days when she wore pigtails, appeared anything else. Mrs. Mallory looked as if she had been in swimming with all her clothes on. Her shirt...
...Florida Water and Fragrance" [article by "C. W. Barren" for C. W. Barren, president of the Wall Street Journal, author of many articles analyzing Florida]. "Those who do not like Gory Cables can go to hell. Fifty million dollars have already been spent on this Elysium. Most of this has been for publicity. ... On the highest point, which is approximately five feet eight inches above mean, low down, dirty sea level, they are going to build a beautiful early Spanish missing-style $10,000,000.35 insane asylum. They got the idea from Dr. [Roach] Straton when he was down here...