Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seemed funny beforehand doesn't seem at all funny now. Finally comes the Sunday night before the Monday opening, when the final dress rehearsal occurs. It starts at 7 o'clock in the evening and continues until about 7 or 8 o'clock the following morning. Then the weeks spent on the road before going into New York are full of trials. One audience never sees exactly the same performance that another sees...
Hours in a dentist's chair are in themselves unpleasant, but they bring a sense of security, of satisfaction that time could not be better spent. Now comes the word from Germany that these visits are the causes of new misery. Some time ago, Professor Stock, famed Berlin chemist, published an article on the dangers of using amalgam* for fillings. One Professor His then decided to study the problem in his medical clinic. He took a group of workmen who had contact with mercury in their daily occupation, a group of patients whose only contact with mercury...
There were several other classifications in which not many minutes were spent. At the University of Toronto, Canada, Psychologist J. W. Bridges asked 168 students to answer some questions the answers to which could be considered "symptomatic...
Died. Belle Skinner, 47, president of the American Committee of Villages Liberes, daughter of the late William Skinner, founder of the Skinner Silk Co.; in Paris. In 1919, she adopted the entire French village of Hattonchatel, spent $1,000,000 restoring it, and was three times decorated by the French Government...
Solemn and deep-voiced Professor Jabavu, of the South African Native College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in the rural districts there were thousands of people who could read, but that they had no books...