Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collecting his material Mr. Gunther spent eight months touring Asia. Commented the London Evening Standard long before Inside Asia was completed: "In pre-war days a lifetime of study and devotion was supposed to be necessary to acquire even a bowing acquaintance with the Orient. Although Mr. Gunther has all the conveniences of modern travel at his command, there may be many who will think that the shortness of his sojourn scarcely justifies so ambitious a title." But Mr. Gunther also has countless reliable friends-politicians, newspapermen, informants-who are more than willing to pump him full of biographical detail...
...Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman's college at Cambridge, before her appointment to the University's Disney Professorship of Archeology...
...leave T. C. free to use the money as it sees fit for experiments in elementary and secondary education. But Lincoln's parents and Dr. Flexner hold T. C. to be morally bound to use it for Lincoln School. They were shocked to learn that T. C. had spent part of the endowment for research not connected with the school, for salaries of professors nominally but not actually on Lincoln's staff. It was estimated that the college had thus diverted $200,000 of Lincoln's funds to its own uses, had given back...
...night before in Winnipeg, Governor Stassen had addressed 400 guests at a civic reception in his honor. Subject: good will. That morning he had addressed 135 members of the Winnipeg Board of Trade at a good-will breakfast. The Governor's plump wife had spent several hours dressing for her presentation to the King and Queen. The Governor had donned his cutaway and striped trousers, plastered down his bright red hair...
...bigger reason: in a good year, an average country doctor covering a wide territory may collect $5,000 in one-and two-dollar fees. But, said vigorous Dr. Lloyd C. Warren of Franklin, N. Y., 40% of this gross income must be spent for transportation and medical supplies. So the doctor's average net income is seldom more than $3,000. "Obstetrical cases," said Dr. Warren, "are about 50% loss. Automobile accidents . . . are about 100% charity . . . and the boys with venereal disease never come back...