Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his graduation, Price spent a year abroad on the Charles Eliot Travelling Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, which he won by competition. Since his return, Price has been engaged by Olmstead Brothers, and Hallam Movius, landscape architects. Hanson is a graduate of the University of Illinois...
...elected poets. Besides this service it will also afford a birdseye view of the members of the Senior class, from the man who was in college one year as an undergraduate to the distinguished individual who lists five sports and innumerable committee and executive positions. Of the man who spent his four years in conscientious searching after truth and gradual strengthening of the fibres of his character there will be little more to be seen than of those who toiled not but spun in perhaps ever decreasing circles...
...raced for money and at his racetrack there was no betting. For (said he) it was un fair for the wealthy sportsman, to whom money was no object, to race his horses against the average breeder who had his living to make in the racing business. Thus, though he spent millions on trotting horses, from them Mr. Billings never realized, nor tried to realize, a penny of profit...
...lived for committed suicide when their homes were confiscated, the eight contractors condemned more land, tore down more houses to straighten the roadway. One of the new houses condemned for the memorial road belonged to a Nanking university professor. Four times he went to the municipal offices, spent $1.80 on ricksha fares. On the fourth trip he received a warrant for the value of his house - total $1.90. The professor donated the 10? profit to the Dr. Sun Yat-sen memorial fund...
...Back Bay and so discover that the boss's daughter and his stenographer are sisters under a very thin skin. At any rate this naive belief in the "right kind" of wife as a stepping stone to the happy life hardly does credit to an intellect which has spent many years over the exact sciences...