Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some three years I served in China, most of that time spent in duty with the Yangtze patrol, aboard the coal-burner Monocacy. Several times I have been aboard the Panay. There was not a cleaner ship in the U. S. Navy...
...dullest publications of Government Printing Office is The Budget of the United States Government. In it inveterate collectors of useless information may occasionally turn up the fact that $5,897-38 was spent to send the Marine Band to the G. A. R. encampment; or that an unexpended appropriation of $5,004.25 was reappropriated to buy land for landless California Indians. But the meat of this fat volume is its introduction written by the President and dispatched to Congress as his annual Budget Message...
...were not necessary for a composer to be sincere. Ravel answered: 'I don't particularly care about this 'sincerity.' I try to make art." He had a little story about how he had worked for four years on a certain sonata and had spent three of the four taking out unnecessary notes...
...group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether the 100-year-old prophecy of Messrs. Chew & friends was going to come true...
...studies as its inevitable corallary. Yet making Harvard a vocational school would not only be contradicting the respectable cultural traditions of past presidents, but also those of the University's present head. President Conant has made it plain that he desires a return to the "liberal arts"; he has spent much effort to develop a program whereby both the student and the public may become conscious of our American civilization and interested in its general progress. It does not seem that neither he nor even the Harvard student wants the college to become a school for learning only the principles...