Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long recognized as one of the most worthwhile Freshman extra-curricular activities, the competition will, this year, be relieved of most of the tiresome indoor work which was formerly done by the Freshmen. The resultant decrease in time spent on the job will give the candidate plenty of time for College duties...
...objection to the manner of the bill's passage was applauded by most of his confreres-had predicted, he found nothing wrong with the bill itself. Next day it passed without objection. The incident nonetheless remained noteworthy. It was the only serious interruption in a week which Congress spent in going over formidable legislative jumps with almost alarming ease. Major bills which were finally enacted...
...innocent-eyed, pockmarked Russian exile named Serafimov came out alive after his flight across China, those words expressed all that he had distilled out of his experience. Expelled with six other Europeans by the Bolsheviks from "the very middle of Asia," later held in custody in Aqsu. Serafimov had spent a winter in a particularly colorful environment of Asiatic depravity, had fallen in love with a haggard Russian prostitute and, having finally touched the lowest depth of despair and loneliness, had attained a lasting state of grace by strangling a companion fugitive...
...sensitive prisoner. The story of Number 957 (name: Alexander William Mansell; sentence: life servitude; eyes: brown; height: 5 ft. 7 in.; age: 20; ruptures: none), Museum deals less minutely with its central character than with the stones which enclose him. The work of an Irish agitator who spent 14 years in Dartmoor and Parkhurst prisons, was twice sentenced to death, it is written in a sensitive narrative prose, interrupted with passages of Joycean inner-monologs, suggests the emergence of another strong poetic talent in the ranks of young Irish novelists...
Tired of lacing up his boots, a Chicagoan named W. L, Judson in 1893 devised the world's first slide fastener. It worked badly, but it made an instantaneous impression upon Colonel Lewis Walker, a lawyer from Meadville, Pa. Colonel Walker spent the next 20 years and about $1,000,000 collected from a multitude of sources, before he began to achieve any commercial success with the gadget. Judson was unable to perfect it and it was not until 1913 that one Gideon Sundback developed the "zipper" as everyone now knows it. Started that year...