Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work has been done. Coach French and his aids limiting the activities of the first-year players to conditioning exercises. French yesterday announced that there would be a cut in the squad today and that serious preparation for the opening clash would then get under way. The coaches have spent most of their time getting a line on prospective material among the former schoolboy players...
...wished that some time in the course might be spent on the non-Euclidian geometries of Lobachersky and Rieman, which have received so much popular notoriety, and upon a few other modern developments of geometry about which those who have studied some mathematics would like to be able to enlighten their friends...
...which the Department of Music offers which are more interesting to the serious student of music than this one. Professor Davison brings to Music 3a an enviable international reputation as well as years of experience in training the best choral groups in this country. No student will regret having spent a year under his stimulating and instructive guidance...
...parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became a director for Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long to make them, spent huge sums, worked his casts to exhaustion. Last year, after finishing The Wedding March, a dull picture in spite of a budget so huge that the producers did not exploit the figures, he started to direct Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly. Limited strictly as to time and funds...
...youth he spent much time with gamblers. A boasted adventurer, he enlisted in the U. S. Army during the War. After his discharge he again became an adventurer. At various times he: ran a New York matrimonial bureau; collected "thousands of dollars" on a Ford car which he repeatedly raffled off but never delivered; was arrested after "illegal actions" during a political campaign; jumped bail and went to Georgia where the store robbery occurred...