Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doubtless with these deadlocks in mind, Mr. MacDonald went on to say last week: "We have determined that we shall not allow technical points to override great public issues involved in our being able to come to a settlement." Loyal Help: Over 15 million dollars was to have been spent on building the war boats postponed by Britain last week- namely the cruisers Surrey and Northumberland, the submarine "mother ship" Maidstone, and two submarines. Thousands of workmen will have to be taken off these well-paying jobs. They are unionized, potent. Last week the Labor party's Ramsay MacDonald...
...laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money spent on him as any other...
...will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely more provocative than a courageous admission. But since Herzl's day there are fewer Jews concealing their Semitism. ... I was the last comrade that Herzl talked with. He was a worn and spent man. I asked him whether we could not free him from the necessity of potboiling for his Vienna newspaper. . . 'I dare not,' he answered, 'lest it be said I live on Zionism rather than...
...Spent $10,000,000 in expansion in last three years, acquired seven smaller bakeries east of the Mississippi last year; plans to build six new plants in 1929 and 1930) Net income...
...verses-Lucretia Augusta Sturgis Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, famed London banker (Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates she asked him to inscribe the words in her autograph book. He did so, composed the two special stanzas...