Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that you moved TIME'S release date up to Thursday to get your advertisers' copy in the hands of the people who are going to get $30 every Thursday, before they get it all spent...
Soon she noticed that Voss frequently visited her tenants. Miss de Wanger also noticed that the Lonkowskis spent much money on liquor and parties. One night she asked Mrs. Lonkowski where they got the money. "From the Government-the German Government," replied Mrs. Lonkowski. She and her husband vanished after U. S. customs and Army officers caught Lonkowski red-handed with military airplane plans, swallowed his denials, let him get away...
...Green's legal domicile-New York, where he maintained a $27,000-a-year apartment at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel; Florida, where his Star Island mansion at Miami Beach cost a small fortune; Massachusetts, where in 1921 he built a house requiring 30 servants; or Texas, where he spent most of his time between 1893 and 1910 but kept only a $5-a-month room at Terrell in later years...
...mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced...
There are a thousand stories about ghost writing; the student who spent fifty dollars to have his honors thesis written for him and received a D for his money, and the men who merely spent a dollar each week a few years ago and then could forget about their English A themes, are only two examples. Yet these stories represent a serious problem for the University that will remain as long as even a small percentage of students continue to be downright dishonest. Individual "ghosts" and organizations of them, local and national, plying their trade now as they have...