Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just come to this country from the English University. "If we do not like a lecture all we have to do is walk out and try another course," he continued. "The average student spends about three hours a day at classes and studies, while five hours a day spent in the pursuit of knowledge is all that could be asked of any member of the college. In America you are far too pressed for time...
...American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps...
...accompanied this portrait of sorry sculpture with sorrier statistics. The Association, he said, had collected and spent more than a million, was in debt more than half a million. Twelve years had been allowed for the carving of an adamantine, timeless legend. They had elapsed. The result was only a hugely chipped General Lee, almost insulting in its immense ineptitude. "In 17 months," he declared, "Mr. Borglum produced the first model, all working models necessary to that date, removed 25,000 tons of granite, erected the hoisting engine, built the studio, installed the projecting lens, built the stairway, completed...
...Glover Patterson Eddy-her biography is spotted with lacunae. She deliberately made them. She would never tell her age (it was about 87), nor her girlish life, nor permit her elderly photograph be taken, nor tell the source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door is her splendid mansion. It cost scores of thousands. Each year since 1920 she spent more than...
...Murray of Maryland as presiding bishop. But a growing faction of Episcopalians love regimentation. Particularly the Anglicans among them talk of creating archbishops. Others oppose them tooth and claw. Of this denominational stress little appeared when the convention opened last week and little of anything else. The time was spent shaking hands and preparing for contest of the next week...