Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elected to go out from the gun and it was this fact which made the record a possibility. Meredith was at the Harvard man's shoulder as they whisked past the furlong post in 21 4-5 and the Penn runner forged ahead entering the homestretch. Willcox was so spent by his early efforts that he finished fourth...
Which leads me to memories of an evening recently spent at one of those clubs which make a Boston night quite too awful, did you really go? Well, I tried my best to be friendly with every one and keep on the sidelines, even hoping for a small, size six and a half, B width brawl. But nothing transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley...
Last week the American Society for the Control of Cancer (370 Seventh Ave., New York City; Dr. Howard C. Taylor, president; Dr. George A. Soper, managing director) girded itself for renewed educational propaganda. Last year it spent about $60,000 on its work. A fortnight ago John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave it $135,000. But it needs $1,000,000 as an endowment fund. This it will...
...much money was spent on newspaper advertising last year...
Advertising. Nine years and a 500% increase in newspaper advertising-Director William A. Thompson of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association was telling the Federal Trade Commission last week. In 1925, $720,000,000 was spent on newspaper advertising-$500,000,000 by local merchants, $220,000,000 by national sellers. Advertising agencies placed considerable of the business; in fact it "would be suicidal to advertisers" to do away with the present agency system, according to Manager Lincoln B. Palmer of the association...