Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another Harvard played a Washington team with the temperature hovering at thirty-nine, and against Navy on Saturday a downpour broke loose half way through the match. The team could have had more practice indoors at Cambridge. Even the lacrosse team, which played its games through mud and rain, spent money which could better be used for some under-coached or ill-equipped minor sport. Soccer, fencing and polo are obvious examples of financial mal-nutrition and fiscal deficiency...
Arnold has spent most of his life in China, having been made Student Interpreter at the American legation in Peking in 1902, the first person to hold this post. In 1914 he was named Consul-General at Hankow and in the same year gained the position he still holds as Commercial attache...
...years the Mayflower's planks were trod by U. S. Presidents. Taft was too large to use the marble bath presented to his athletic predecessor by Italy. Wilson had an elevator installed, Harding had it removed. Paper cigar-holder in mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower...
...Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction." But he was always afraid he was going to be found out. So the poor devil spent his time deceiving his friends about the source of his inspiration, carefully neglected...
...music is stilted, affected, but sincere; that's what we're trying to interpret in the dancing," Virginia Schroeder, dance director, said. The male dancing chorus spent part of yesterday evening learning to jump off a bench gracefully and in unison...