Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dredging, though begun among slushy millions in Pennsylvania, would be extended to "every State in the union." The next state will be Illinois. The committee will repair to Chicago this month to plumb charges made last week by busy-buzzing Senator Thaddeus Caraway that three or more millions were spent on candidates...
...Time spent in jail waiting for sentence cannot now be deducted from terms of a year or less. (Before, a prisoner sentenced to one year in prison after having spent three months waiting for sentence, could get out, with his compensation, in six months...
...Legislature refused to vote him $250,000 to enforce Prohibition. She had gone to the Governor personally and told him that she and her colleagues would get that money for him. They had called their fund the "Governor's Enforcement Fund" and this was how it had been spent...
Wallpaper. The landlord who let his tenant select her own wallpaper, the homeowner who fidgeted while his white-overalled paperhanger butted the paper like a crazy-quilt, the rural housewife who hung her own−they spent $40,000,000 last year, bought 350,000,000 rolls, kept more than 40 U. S. wallpaper manufactories busy. The Wallpaper Manufacturers of America last week noted that this was more than the 323,000,000 rolls of $34,755,000 value...
...Euclid Village, O., one Joseph Koman, 71, and one Frank Rupor, 68, shared the chores on a farm. Both had spent their strength; in the perpetual lassitude of old age they pottered and dug and weeded. Sometimes one did more than the other, and then little fights ensued in which the old man who had been for that day the most energetic berated his friend for letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism...