Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical ranks . . . Coach Wieman's huddle looked very informal with its "heads-up" style; it gave the center time to come up and growl at the Harvard line before being joined by his mates . . . Little Nick Mellen was outweighed 60 lbs. by opposing guard Herring, but the latter spent all afternoon picking himself off the ground . . . Austie Harding's choice of plays was uncanny during the second half; he proved himself a great team spark . . . Hardest tackle seen on Soldiers Field this year was by backer-up Cliff Wilson and Joe Gardella on Mountain; the latter fumbled, causing a touchback...
...good eyesight of basically healthy California appeared already to be discovering that the overfull moon which hung above the State was made of green cheese. Dopesters give the "Ham & Eggs" one chance in three of winning. Pathetic appeared the lot of those who have spent their pennies supporting it, but tragic will be the political fate of Sheridan Downey and his managers if, having won nomination through "Ham & Eggs," they are swamped by reaction against...
Organized in June 1937, the Foundation has thus far spent $1,250,000, parceling out money to groups best equipped to administer its program. Chief contributor to the National Safety Council, which educates the public, the Foundation also helps the traffic engineering research of men like Yale's Miller McClintock, the personnel-training of Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute...
...Carnegie International Exhibition, assembled with shrewd relish by the Institute's Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, costs the estate of Andrew Carnegie about $40,000 a year, enlists the services of scouts in no less than ten European countries. Last month an international jury† spent two days picking eight prizewinners out of 365 paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings were expertly hung in the Institute's 16 lofty galleries. For five days last week the galleries remained locked to all except a few silent critics. Then one rainy night Pittsburgh...
Editor of Jack and Jill is peppy, dark, bob-haired Ada Campbell Rose, mother of two-Donald, 11, Malcolm, 4. Colorado-born, graduating from Northwestern in 1923, she got a job with the Chicago firm of Scott, Foresman, textbook publishers, spent three years learning what children like to read. Wife of Donald G. Rose, Department of Agriculture agent, who she says "is not the least bit literary," Editor Rose is daughter-in-law of Philip Sheridan Rose, editor of Curtis' Country Gentle...