Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day, having spent a feckless night seeking means of release from politicians, they were arraigned in mufti before the Grand Jury. Mr. Monaghan began to produce his evidence of their guilt...
Legends aside, the hard facts of Bat'a's career are starkly inspiring. War contracts for army boots gave him his first dip into fabulous profits. Instead of squandering or speculating with the money, he spent it on newest super-efficient shoe machinery, some of which he invented. Such intensive study of shoemaking problems led Herr Bat'a to believe that he could apply American-Ford straight line production methods to shoes-an idea then deemed mad in Europe...
Most of the important college football teams spent last week rolling and pushing on their own gridirons, not venturing to play rivals. Some of the smaller colleges made use of a warm September afternoon for playing their first games with much cursing and lazy snorting but without the readiness, which will be produced by November temperatures, to commit murder or die for victory...
Trans-Atlantic Talk. When William Crapo Durant, stock market operator, was in Europe this summer he spent more than $25,000 on trans-Atlantic telephone calls to the U. S. But never for one call did he, nor anyone else, ever spend as much as F. B. Odium did last week. For 95 minutes of speech he paid $1,425. He is director of several U. S. electrical companies, notably, of Electric Bond & Share...
...student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With him were 3 young picklock and a less specialized, more versatile scoundrel. After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses). The raucous trulls at Fat Margot's knew him well. The haughtier but hardly more...