Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Skiddy von Stade, seven-goal wizard who spent last fall in South America matching mallets with Argentine's best, will lead a team on to the hard packed surface of the Commonwealth Armory in Boston Saturday night for the Yale game which has one convincing victory over the Eli's already behind...
...given certificates of specialization to almost any physician in good repute who has practiced his specialty for five years or more. But from 1940 on, it was proposed that certificates would be awarded only if the candidate: 1) graduated from a school approved by the A. M. A.; 2) spent at least one year as interne in an approved hospital; 3) interned three more years in specialized clinics, dispensaries, hospitals or laboratories; 4) passed an examination in the basic medical sciences of a specialty, as well as in the clinical, laboratory and public health aspects; and 5) spent at least...
...tems"), and although it was published in a busy week when Congress was winding up a session, spot news of the week received scant mention. Gradually TIME style developed. Gradually more and more news, with its background and significance, was put into TIME. As money was earned it was spent to improve the quality of the magazine. The editorial cost of producing an issue of TIME is today just about 50 times as great as 15 years ago. In fact the expert color photographs used nowadays on TIME'S cover often cost more than the entire editorial department...
Slowly but surely the magazine gained readers and advertisers. Yet when TIME was nearly three years old (circulation: 105,530), Editor Luce spent two hours one evening walking around Manhattan's Bryant Park with an old friend debating whether he and Editor Hadden could afford to raise their own salaries to $50 a week (their writers already were paid more). He decided they would be justified in doing it. But so ingrained was the habit of plowing back profits into the improvement of the magazine that not until 1929 (circulation: 243,400) could enough money be spared...
...McGoverns, finding Peiping too tame, frequented the fighting front. In one expedition they made with six newspaper correspondents, the five men and three women spent a sleepless night in one bed while dogs devouring Chinese corpses howled outside their hut. When he returned to Evanston, Bill McGovern predicted Japan would conquer and control all China within two years...