Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settlement proposed by E. P. Holton has my hearty approval. I have spent several months in Britain, and think she would respect us more if she paid...
...tricks of tunesmithing. This trade paid. In his time he has turned out 28 musical comedies, has written, among his 500 songs, such daisies as Goodbye, My Lady Love, What's the Use of Dreaming?, Central, Give Me Back My Dime. Married seven times, he made-and spent-$1,500,000. Somewhere in France Is the Lily, a World War occasional, brought him $50,000. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, his most-famed favorite, sold 3,000,000 copies, still brings in royalties...
...industrial laboratories have long since recognized the value of pure science. At the General Electric laboratories, Irving Langmuir was told by the director not to bother with practical applications, but to find out what he could about what went on inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp. Thereafter Langmuir spent three years "investigating facts," discovered some-for example, that a bulb filled with nitrogen or argon works better than an evacuated bulb-which now save electricity consumers several million dollars...
Turned down at Annapolis because of a crooked trigger finger, Dan became a civil engineer, spent the next five years getting in & out of trouble as a map maker for insurance companies through the South. When he went to Manhattan in 1878, sold a water color of a fish for $25, he decided "darned if I'd work any more...
...famed portrait painter, James H. Beard, Dan spent his boyhood in Cincinnati and Covington, Ky., was nicknamed "Buffalo" because of his infant virility. In those days pigs still cleaned the Cincinnati streets; Conestoga wagons still lumbered past the house on their way West; downriver pilots still swaggered on the levee. Danny fought the "river rats," dug for gold in the backyard, had a backyard menagerie of crows, squirrels, snakes. Once Lincoln smiled at him as he ran alongside the President's open barouche...