Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tully, who plays center, prepared at Boston Latin and spent one year at Exeter playing the pivot post for the Exonians...
...premature to ask Freshmen, who are only just now becoming adjusted to life in the Yard, to focus their attention on things ahead, it is never too early for them to think about the Houses. Since three years of their undergraduate careers are more than likely to be spent in the Houses, there is every reason for the men now in the Yard to begin to think about the Houses in which they would prefer to live. One of the best ways to get to know the Houses from the inside is to cat in their dinning halls...
...East Side, Ben at the age of ten worked up a thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish derbies and yank Jewish beards. Having neither beard nor derby, Ben Balish set himself...
...scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family at least on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time...
...months later he joined an ambulance unit bound for the Italian front. There he transferred to the Italian infantry; soon after, in a trench-mortar explosion, got a wound that retired him from active service. Of his War experiences, Author Hemingway speaks modestly, says usually, "I spent most of the time in hospitals." He carried this attitude so far that when his War-novel (A Farewell to Arms) was being cinematized he took pains to deny all publicity stories of a more glamorous military career, scotched plans for a "world premiere" at Piggot, Ark. (where he happened to be staying...