Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words crept into the strikers' back country vocabulary. Professional agitators taught them the word "sweatshop" which seemed particularly applicable to Southern mills, with their hungry hum ming machinery, high humidity,* closed windows, lint-laden air. Said one striker: "I ain't afeared of Hell. I've spent 20 summers in the mills...
Pressed for an explanation, she said frostily, "I was born in California and brought home to Scotland at the age of two. My early life was spent in Scotland, where people are very kind...
Presently President Portes Gil announced that only $7,500,000 had been spent by the Government in putting down the insurrection. Considerably more than this picayune sum is spent by U. S. housewives in a single season on ripe, red Mexican tomatoes...
Executive Director Blau, an amiable, dark-haired little man of the age the English call "thirtyish," is a native of Nagy-varod, Hungary. He has spent most of his life in the U. S. For eight years he taught Economics at the College of the City of New York. As a certified public accountant he had as a client the Theatre Guild, for which he devised a "fiscal week" sys tem. Each Saturday night the books were closed, reckoning made. Systematizing backstage procedure, he fell naturally into stage managing. Goat Song and Androcles and the Lion were...
...Thompson received his musical training at Harvard and under Ernest Bloch. While at Harvard he was awarded the Rome Prize and subsequently spent three years in composition at the American Academy in Rome. He is now professor of Music in Wellesley College and lecturer on Music in Harvard University...