Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb his future planned aggressions. He was described as looking much tenser than usual. Suddenly his entourage realized when he began that, having prepared no speech, he might in a moment of oratorical...
...wrote Professor Calvin Springer Hall Jr. recently in an article entitled "The Inheritance of Emotionality," published in the Sigma Xi Quarterly. Dr. Hall, who though only 30 is chairman of the psychology division at Cleveland's Western Reserve University and who is also getting bald, has spent many of his adult years studying "emotionality" (inherent susceptibility to emotional stimuli). Some researchers, such as Behaviorist John Broadus Watson, have tried to show that emotional endowments are all the same at birth, that differences appearing later are due to environment...
Under the 1934 Silver-Purchase Law. designed ostensibly to broaden the monetary base, the U. S. Treasury has spent nearly $1,000,000,000 buying silver at the pegged prices (now 64? an ounce for domestic silver, 43? for foreign silver), a substantial subsidy which has stimulated silver production the world around, driven China off the silver standard. Author Leavens speculates on what would have happened if this law had never passed, concludes that silver miners would have had a hard time, that the price would have fallen sharply, but that eventually a new and satisfactory equilibrium would have been...
Bustling Publisher Funk, whose idea is unquestionably the most successful since the picture magazines', spent 30 years as the forgotten man of Funk & Wagnalls before he struck out for himself. While the Literary Digest sickened under Co-Publisher Robert J. Cuddihy (who had acquired 56% of the stock), Wilfred Funk had to amuse himself with such unprofitable pastimes as compiling a dog dictionary, getting a reputation as a prankster (he tore small towels to shreds) and writing a batch of light verse. Sample...
...American Yoga-believers from Arizona, husky, 20-year-old ex-Lawyer Theos Bernard is the first white man to become a Tibetan Lama. In 1936 he took a Master's degree in philosophy at Columbia University (specializing in Buddhism), spent the next 16 months in India and Tibet. He was allowed to enter...