Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first sailed into the grey shimmering bay that smelt of woods and wild grape, looking for something; liberty . . . freedom to worship God in their own manner . . . space to breathe. Thinking of these things, worrying as he pushed the little cart loaded with eels, haddock, cod, halibut, swordfish, Vanzetti spent his mornings . . . weighting-out fish...." The fish peddler worried because a few days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year 1920, a body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist, a printer. This printer...
Secretary of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of War, Minister of Marine, Minister of Aeronautics, celebrated his 43rd birthday last week by assuming a sixth Cabinet post, the Ministry of Corporations. He spent the day at Forli, his country estate (TIME, June 21) with Signora Rachele Mussolini (née Guidi) and their daughter Edda, now recovering from an attack of diphtheria. During the week, Signor Mussolini, once the loudest and most often vocal of European statesmen pursued his recent "policy of silence" (TIME, May 3) by issuing three written orders: Sicilian Riots. General di Giorgio to proceed...
...think? "To our minds the advertising of the Ford automobile lacked what we consider a very essential quality. . . there was no distinct, quotable theme." Yet the Ford Company has one product about which it cast a distinct atmosphere-an impression of ne plus ultra. Probably more money was spent in advertising the Lincoln car than was spent on any other conveyance in the world's history, considering its estimated market. But for that campaign, a campaign that made Lincoln, Edsel Ford was responsible...
...During the period of American intervention (1917-20) over $7,000,000,000 was spent by Great Britain in the United States. Of that $7,000,000,000 we borrowed $4,000,000,000.and provided an additional $3,000,000,000 from our own independent resources. We spent on the two items of munitions and foodstuffs alone more than the $4,000,000,000 we borrowed from the United States" [i. e. the U. S. loans to Britain were shot up and eaten in the "Common Cause," and "ought" (in British eyes) to be canceled at least in part...
...Vilhjálmur Stefansson, who pressed a stopwatch as he burst into congratulations to the two for having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.-a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions-Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan-had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans...