Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unidentified undergraduates spent a busy afternoon yesterday, if the word of one who gave his name as Chief Laughing Bull is to be believed. For, replete with war paint, blankets, feathers, moccasins, and blank cartridge pistols, the group staged an attack on the government-sponsored pioneer expedition in Warren, Massachusetts, just before sundown...
...publications for the adult have grown 170%, and more and more reading is necessary to make a living. Today a private secretary has to do some 500% more reading than in 1900. Because inefficient reading is responsible for 60% of all failures in school, $612 of every $1,000 spent for primary schooling is spent to teach reading. Yet one-half the adult population of the U. S. reads with difficulty. Eye defects are partly to blame. So are poverty of vocabulary and fuzzy thinking. Major reason for reading inefficiency, however, is bad reading habits...
...recognition. This span for the average efficient college reader is 1.2 words; a very few persons can grasp as many as five or six words at once. At the end of the hop there is a pause, while the words register on the brain; 94% of reading time is spent in these "fixations." Sometimes the eye goes back over words it has already scanned. These are regressions. To read rapidly it is necessary to reduce regressions to a minimum, shorten fixations, lengthen the recognition span...
...newspaper correspondent and co-author of one of George White's Scandals. Secretary Shiebler decided two years ago that "the law requires the superintendent to make an annual report but does not require that it be dull." With the Board of Education photographer. Ambrose J. Hickey, he spent six months touring New York City's vast school system to catch schoolchildren in unguarded moments...
...York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers get no remuneration. New York City is crashing through with about $25,000,000, New York State with $10,000,000, but this is not a subsidy, for a large part of the money is being spent in basic improvements and reclamation of the Fair site which will be a park when the Fair is ended. The U. S. Government has authorized expenditure c. $3,000,000 and the Fair Corporation itself plans to spend about $47,000,000, part financed by Fair revenues, the rest...