Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Y except - -. He got lots of that. In fact he has heard this brand of F. S. Edmonds and F. H. Jamison overseas and ever since. Same old songs of self-pity and sacrifice, patting their selves on the back because they have records to show they spent two dollars on a soldier. Compiling the records was clever and their other stories are as interesting as Hans C. Andersen's but, like the latter's, was meant for children. Why study mass-psychology to find out why -Obscenity deleted. the Y charged six francs for cigarettes...
Princeton has a new claim to distinction. Recently the Alumni Weekly discovered that the graduates of the New Jersey university have spent more years in the White House than those of any other institution in the country. The race for this honor was close, with the Tiger's victory depending upon a half year's margin over Harvard. But a win obviously is a win, and the prize goes to Princeton...
...music they have led friendly but separate lives. They traveled together, by necessity, but each one sat by himself, usually reading. In Manhattan, where they were most often, they stayed at separate hotels. For a month in the summer they took vacations apart. Two other months a year they spent in making programs and practicing in a chalet high in the Swiss Alps near the Villa Flonzaley...
...Sculptor Jo Davidson spent nine hours, missed a dinner party, watching his statue of the late, great Senator La Follette being moved into Manhattan's Anderson Galleries (TIME...
...spite of day and night study, however, he advanced slowly. After 23 years he was only assistant cashier. Then, however, came a brief absence, a marked advancement. Mr. Alexander left Bank of Commerce, spent nine months as American Express treasurer, was called back as vice president (1908). In 1911 he was made president, in 1923 became board chairman...