Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average American, with an income ranging from $400 to $2500 a year, must necessarily subject almost all his expenditures to the sales tax through local expenditures, he explained. The rich man avoids the tax by outside purchases. He pays no tax on money spent for rent or travel, or on such portion of his income which he does not spend...
...period in a man's life is better suited for airing his views than the four years spent as a college undergraduate. It is that fertile period when opinions are approaching maturity, and affiliations which tend to persuade prudence and tie the tongue are not yet formed...
...airplanes, submarines, machine guns, investigator of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church. The Church of the New Jerusalem grew up after his death. Today it has some 20,000 members...
...with an enormous social responsibility" which "on the whole" it failed to meet. FORTUNE discovered that the contraceptive business amounts to $250,000,000 a year, which is "slightly bigger than the barbershop business and very slightly smaller than the jewelry business." Only $38,000,000 is spent for simple male equipment, the rest for women's. Manufacturing and retail markups ranged from 120% to 300%. "No product is very satisfactory," found FORTUNE, and "the only method yielding even a semblance of certainty was that which the subjects were taught after coming to [a] clinic...
...cousin was her lover. A terrible creeping apathy left Mr. Witt sitting by, inert, trembling, preoccupied, while the cousin went to his death. Then, to square himself with his conscience, Mr. Witt had to believe that Milagritos had betrayed him. At last this upright, self-respecting gentleman spent his nights prowling like a baffled thief around his own house, rummaging through his wife's papers for evidence of her guilt, while the shells fell on the doomed and starving city...