Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Macdonald, Harding, Burnett, and Foley did some kicking, and then a few minutes were spent on pass offense and defense. Cornell plays were again scanned and the hour ended with a short signal drill. The orders of the day were that no one extend himself, and the session served as it was intended--to take the kinks out of muscle and brain on the eve of the celebrated game...
...organize his forces best at an examination at college will do the same afterward. This ignores the difference in the amount of time each student spends studying, for as long as grades in exams tend to vary according to the amount memorized and hence the time spent, it is the hard worker, not the man with initiative, who will rank best. Yet the grind is not the most apt to succeed. A more accurate measure of ability seems to be the thesis, a topic not mentioned by Dr. Lowell...
Most spendthrift of U. S. foundations has been the General Education Board, which John Davison Rockefeller established in 1902 for "the promotion of education within the U. S. without distinction of race, sex or creed." By last December it had spent $255,334,670. Since 1920 its trustees, believing the future "will find means to provide for itself," have been giving away the principal as well as the income of this fund.* Last week President Raymond Elaine Fosdick reported that the General Education Board has only $8,700,000 still unpledged, will soon be liquidated...
...house guest of the Socialite Gilbert Kahns at Oyster Bay, Long Island. Little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, twinkle-toed Bostonian, sat around at the Forest Hills Inn drinking tea. California's Donald Budge, world's No. 1 amateur tennist, and his square-headed shadow, Doubles Partner Gene Mako, spent their days at the movies and listening to swing bands...
...week ago Sunday, students who had missed Governor Hurley's proclamation continuing Daylight Saving Time, spent most of the sabbath attempting to adjust themselves and their timepieces...