Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Affairs in the April 4 issue you stated that the War Department spent $96,000 over its appropriation in giving salutes to the President and other dignitaries...
...taken into their hearts. At first we couldn't see what they were raving about. She isn't like most girls. She doesn't dress smartly or tell dirty jokes the way debutantes do; she doesn't drink or do the Big Apple. She isn't even beautiful; we spent two days trying to discover if she used make-up. She didn...
...members of the Varsity tennis squad, Stuart M. Wyeth '38 and William P. Everts '39, spent an unprofitable afternoon yesterday looking for playable courts. They hired a couple of bicycles and pedalled to the public courts two miles down Memorial Drive...
...flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore has spent a lifetime on the beach of music's ocean brooding over, and trying to remedy, the mathematical inaccuracies of long-haired musicians. From spry, 72-year-old Seashore's laboratory have come rhythm meters to test the sense of rhythm, charts showing how often great singers sing...
...years after his father bought the Emporia Gazette), Author White well knows the Midwest he writes about. He knows other environments as well. At 18 his father took him to the Versailles Peace Conference. Graduated from Harvard in 1924, after a year at the University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years on his father's newspaper. Varying his work as reporter, he made several trips to Europe, served a term (1931-32) in the Kansas legislature, in 193 2 was Republican County Chairman. Kansans who remember the Finney scandal (1933) will recognize where his book...