Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department last year spent $124,500-$96,000 over its appropriation for this purpose-on gunpowder used in salutes to the President and other dignitaries. Paring expenses, the Department last week announced that official salutes henceforth would be fired by inferior powder, thus cutting the cost of a 21-gun salute from $62.37 to $28.35. With cheap powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes will be not "Boom" but "Swoosh...
...limited to honorary membership in the United Spanish War Veterans, and 2) the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, whose chairman is Mississippi's loud, bushy-haired John Elliott Rankin. Congressman Rankin lists himself in his official biography as "ex-soldier of the World War" because he spent the 22 days before the Armistice at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky...
After five months spent covering nearly all of Europe, able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief...
...useful way to spend a part of the vacation. The Summer School is an important part of the University, and one gravely misunderstood by the undergraduate, who thinks of it as a sultry Devil's Island where one is sent for scholastic bad behaviour. In reality the six weeks spent here can prove extremely valuable to students in good standing as well as their less fortunate brethren...
...also spent much time studying the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy first European church to have pointed arches, tracing the origin of these arches through southern Italy to northern Africa...