Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor: "Coach Schmidt of Ohio spent last Friday duck hunting. Let's hope he has good shooting the day before the Scarlet play Chicago...
...some of the more impossible situations in the plot have to be blamed on her Victorian methods of story-writing. When Maggie Tulliver stands in the forbidden embrace of Philip. Brother Tom conveniently hoists himself over a fence in the background. When Maggie breakfasts with Stephen after having spent an unwilling night in his company, she is seen by all and sundry who might like to defame her character. The poor girl doesn't have a chance...
...Maginot-Westwall stalemate, or through the Swiss side door. > Machine gunners on the forefront of the German advance wore steel armor covering them from neck to crotch. Weighing 30 Ibs. but only 1/20 in. thick, this gear was more psychological than practical. It would deflect only spent rifle or pistol bullets, was useless against aimed fire or grenades...
From the time of Eckhardt's goal, his ninth of the year, until the end of the game, the tide swung back the other way, and the ball spent most of the time in Dartmouth territory...
David Ives, a halfback made over into a fullback, is the most improved man on the squad. He spent his Sophomore year in the shadow of Captain Johansen, whose understudy he was, but this fall, given a new position, he has proved himself one of the outstanding players on the team. His chief asset is a cool head which offsets his lack of experience...