Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born on earth each day,* at least 200 who live will be blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, with the greatest population, has the most blind. Dr. Harvey James Howard, who spent 14 years in China before he became director of the McMillan Hospital of St. Louis and of the department of ophthalmology in Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President of China...
Three million dollars will be spent the erection of the new Law School building on Davenport Avenue. According to the description of the structures file with the city building inspector, the southerly side of the group will be used for school purposes, while the Northeast side of the section will be used for dormitories. There are to be a total of 26 rooms in the dormitories...
Coach J. L. Knox '98 sends his scrubs into their most important, and what promises to be their hardest, game of the year today, after they have spent a season helping the University squad get into condition for games by putting on the plays of opposing teams. Their development as an eleven has been hindered somewhat in this way, but their play against three outside teams, Tufts Seconds, St. Anselm's, and Brown Freshmen, all of whom they held scoreless, has shown them to possess power...
Only two more days of practice remain, and these sessions will undoubtedly be in the nature of signal drills, blackboard talks and developing a defense for Yale plays. No little time will be spent on ironing out the flaws in the lateral passing attack. To this end Coach Horween has enlisted the services of A. E. French '29, this year's Freshman coach and member of the famous Guarnaccia-French lateral passing combination. This means of attack has been none too reliable this season, but that the Yale game may find the Crimson employing it in some more highly-developed...
...clock yesterday afternoon, the Harvard seismograph reported the tremors of an earthquake of moderate intensity within 200 miles or so of the vicinity of Boston. The actual force of the quake was spent in the first three minutes after it started, but the vibrations continued until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. It was reported that a house in Malden was damaged by the shaking; and students in the laboratory of the University Museum were able to see the swaying of the towers above the Cruft High Tension Laboratory...