Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collection or another, Dangerous Dan grossed its author half a million dollars; and another early Service ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee, earned such widespread prominence that its real-life namesake (whose name Service casually lifted from a bank ledger) spent all the remaining days of his life parrying the question: "Is it warm enough...
...Mignone sent in hundreds of cards, became obsessed with the show. To check on prices, he organized an intricate filing system, hounded the Department of Commerce and called manufacturers all over the country. Said he: "I got a phone bill I'm afraid to show my wife. I spent $200 tracing these things...
Gray never went to medical school, but at 23 he had picked up enough dissecting skill to become house surgeon at London's St. George's Hospital. At 25 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, spent the next six years putting together his book "to furnish the student and the practitioner with an accurate view of the anatomy of the human body...
...Horizon's backers, using Heritage profits, have spent more than $370,000 in promotion, mailed more than 3,000,000 brochures to English teachers, art-book buyers, charge-account customers at quality department stores, subscribers to the Book-of-the-Month Club, Heritage, the Saturday Review and Harper's, and a list broker's miscellaneous collection of 500,000 "cultured individuals." The result: before publication, Horizon said it had 145,000 takers (for a press run of 225,000 copies) at $15 for the year's six issues, $3 less than the regular subscription price. Horizon...
There were many who took full advantage of these services, and spent their summer in the steps of Wigg. These characterized the Harvard type: "so engrossed in thought as to walk through red lights," "falsely English," or "fish-belly white...