Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend hours daily standing in line for supplies. It was no longer possible to entertain at meals, unless the guests brought their own food. At Berlin's big Kurfurstendamm sidewalk cafes, a few brave souls occasionally sat in the dark with their beer, but most Berliners spent their evenings at home, trying to read by carefully shaded lights...
...cooks, bookkeepers, cipherers, but none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid a little less than standard naval wages and grumble a bit because many of them are Navy wives and have to stay put while their husbands move...
...appearing at one WATS post which happened to be temporarily deserted. And she typified lonely British motherhood, for her two daughters had also been evacuated. She stood it as long as she could, then flew to Scotland to see them last fortnight. No British Queen had ever spent a month more like the month spent by her subjects, and the parallel and the example was not lost on the Empire...
...Since 1925 it has had a total net profit of $4,277,000. From this it has paid $467,500 to the municipality to finance WPA projects and other city enterprises. In addition to $2,200,000 for bond retirement it has spent $1,398,200 on plant expansion, written off $100,000 in old equipment, laid away $111,800 for working capital...
...technique logical, whimsical, Gallic. When the Germans called France Britain's Rin-Tin-Tin, the French lost little time getting out a story that France's real Rin-Tin-Tin, a trained police dog, had indeed enlisted with his master in the French Army. Paris-Mondial spent much air time twitting Germany on the Moscow deal, hinting at a sort of diplomatic cuckoldry with the Soviets reaping the joys of Germany's conquest...