Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes a good, solid knowledge of the material to juggle it around dexterously. It requires mulling over and assimilating beforehand. The man who has spent a few nightmare hours cramming at Parker-Cramer's knows most of the essential facts. He has even had a stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...
Mabel McFiggins bought $4 worth of orange stamps (in 25? denominations), good for $4 worth of any food she cared to buy at any of Rochester's 1,200 groceries. For every dollar which she spent for orange stamps, she also got 50? in blue stamps. These were premiums, given to her by the U. S. Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers...
Eastman and Herman Axelbank spent 13 years assembling movie shots made by newsreel men, Red and White propaganda films, and pictures taken by amateur photographers including Tsar Nicholas II himself. The producers of the film have attempted to counteract the effects of official Soviet films which have been accused of minimizing the role played by Leon Trotsky in the Revolution...
...What? Director Barr spent his spare time last week warning himself against the perils of Bigness and Popularity. So far the Museum has amply proved its intellectual honesty, to the dinner-table discomfiture of certain conservative trustees. Director Barr is delighted and others are somewhat surprised that the trustees have supported him so well...
...husband's rockbound dyspepsia with tasty food, his dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous men, her husband's fame...