Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awaiting the start of a special session called before the current slump had been diagnosed as much more than a technical reaction in stocks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent the week much as Herbert Hoover spent November's second week eight years ago: holding conferences to find some way to halt the decline, to restore confidence throughout the land...
...other colleges had adopted the Yale rules, but Harvard went serenely ahead playing her own game. Yale gave in anyway, and spent a week learning the Cambridge version of the game, with disastrous results...
...Blue squad was put through a light drill today with no contact work. Half of the time was spent in kicking and passing practice, and the rest of the time was taken up with a dummy defense and dummy offense against Harvard, with the Grays providing the opposition in both cases...
...scholarship to one of the members of the Committee personally, he should leave the following information at the Council office: expected income for the year, probable expenses, amount of aid being received from the University from scholarships, loans, and al other sources, extra-curricular activities, amount of time spent in outside work, and group in the rank list...
There seconds a trip totals for the year to three hours and 36 minutes of time wasted all of which mght well have been spent in Worthy scholastic endeavor. So a three-year hike of about 13 and two-thirds mikes, and a delay of about 10 hours, 48 minutes, seem to be the result of architectural symmetry at Lowell...