Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some felt that it ill behooved Bingham to criticize the members of a team which had spent over 220 hours of practice time, including the whole month of September, on Soldiers Field, and which made a considerable financial contribution to the H.A.A. through its efforts. After all, none were being paid, or even subsidized, and it was all purely voluntary work...
Inscriptions on the benches are the same as the ones on the benches in the original memorial. They read, "One of they founders him New England know, who staid they feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state, his strength, and years with care, what after comers in them might have share...
After that just about everyone forgot Alfalfa Bill. He wandered between Tishomingo and Oklahoma City-a skinny, bent figure almost lost in a bundle of mufflers and disheveled coats, a cigar stub still sticking out from under a now straggly old mustache. He spent his time writing long and scholarly books on politics, history, and economics, and peddling them to his friends...
...Fines. In the East last week the air seemed alive with waterfowl. One huge flight winged in and spent the night on saltwater bays and coves inside New York City limits, where shooting is prohibited. Elsewhere in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, however, the twelve-gauge guns began barking, though in the East too hunters were plagued with fair weather...
...good part of the world, observing the contrast of rich churches with peasant poverty, shocked by hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds done in religion's name, he finally decided to devote his time and money to combating humanity's yearning to believe and worship. He spent five years writing a 725-page diatribe against Christianity, called Bible, Church and God. Four years ago he organized a few of his fellow thinkers into the "Secularists of New Jersey" (membership 150). Two years ago his group joined with other societies throughout the country to become the "United Secularists...