Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pops are Boston, and Boston is the place where the Vagabond has spent four years, for good or for evil, for better or for worse, and though he damns himself for swimming in a sea of sentimentalism, he loves the Pops and their provincial narrowness...
After the expedition returns to Valdez from the wilderness, the rest of the summer will be spent making aerial surveys for the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...allegiance of 17,000,000. There are two forms of Shintoism, one divided into many small religious sects, the other attached to the State and called "Shrine Shinto." Whether the latter is a religion at all is today a matter of great controversy. A State commission, established in 1929, spent four years pondering it without reaching a unanimous conclusion. The Japanese Supreme Court has ruled that Shrine Shintoism is a religion. On the other hand the Government, while showing partiality toward it. has tried to pass it off as a form of politeness to departed heroes, like...
...figure in this management is quiet George Doswell Brooke, 36 of whose 60 years have been spent in railroading, 14 of them with C. & O. A crack operating man, George Brooke once taught at Culver Military Academy, plays good golf, is extraordinarily neat. To his friends he is known as "Babbling Brooke" because he says so little. Says Robert Young: "He opens his mouth every other day and devotes the rest of his time to the C. & O." Mr. Young claims that the Guaranty interests would rather see a C. & O. president whose chief interest is in railroad finance instead...
Lying low while Huxley fought evolution's battles, ridden by an anxiety neurosis until he became famous, he spent his old age reading romantic novels, died quietly at 73, concerned for the future of his investments, never realized how completely he had revolutionized the whole field of human thought...