Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasure to see the way in which the additional ten dollars required of each student by the Hygiene Department is being spent. As distaste for the Department and Stillman decreases, however, more money will probably be demanded for further improvement. In taking note of this possibility, the University must realize that undergraduates are paying all they can. At the moment it is enough to realize that the nursing staff of the Infirmary under Miss Corbett's direction will treat each patient with warmth and understanding as well as with efficiency...
...review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst who eventually blackmailed von Cramm to the tune of $12,000, hopped off to Palestine. Sentence pronounced: one year in jail, with the two months already spent in confinement to be deducted...
Donald Douglas, having spent all this money, has his fingers crossed. If DC-4 does what is expected in its test flights, it will be just another good Douglas product. If it fails, Donald Douglas will somehow have made the second crucial mistake of his life. The first was perhaps the most fortunate accident which has ever befallen commercial aviation...
...committee that produced the report spent four years exploring the relation of emotion to learning. It had a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Its chairman is husky, placid Professor Daniel Alfred Prescott, 40, of Rutgers University. A onetime Harvard teacher, Dr. Prescott is widely respected by educators for his tremendous research in sociology and psychology, is also an indefatigable stamp collector...
...life became a matter of missed trains, hurried meals, bad hotels. Sometimes Chautauqua people went a little batty under the strain of missing trains; one lecturer rushed on the platform, spent the time for his lecture telling the audience how hard it had been for him to get there, announced that he had only ten minutes to make his train, and dashed away. But good-natured provincial audiences seemed to sleep just as contentedly through that sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along...