Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepare for playing on a field 25 yards smaller than regulation width, the club spent this week working on scissors movements in the three quarters. These consist of the wing cutting back behind his center to take the pass, rather than going to the outside and heading for the sidelines, and will hopefully enable the team to make the most of its speed...
...American and Soviet Governments concluded in January, 1958. The first such exchange in the spring of 1958 consisted of small parties of student newspaper editors. The second was on a larger scale, involving 41 Americans who were in the U.S.S.R. for 39 days and 20 Soviet young people who spent 30 days in the U.S.A. during the summer...
Later, he taught at Bucknell and Worcester Polytechnic Institute before returning to the University in 1944. He was appointed a full professor in 1958 and has been associated with Dudley since February. Last year, Morris spent six months in Egypt as a consultant on sanitary problems...
...admired as well as occasionally resented for his drive, efficiency and muscular opposition to Communism. Noted at home for tough stands on Catholic issues (e.g., his hassle with Eleanor Roosevelt over publicly paid transportation for parochial schools, his frequent criticism of movies he considered indecent), he traveled tirelessly, has spent many Christmases with U.S. troops in Japan, Korea and Europe in his capacity as military vicar to the armed forces...
Since its original publication in 1900, few researchers have challenged the au thority of Baker's Dictionary.* But Musicologist Slonimsky, a man with an insatiable appetite for facts, has long suspected that the book was studded with subterranean errors. To produce his new edition, he spent four tireless years writing to authorities the world over to verify birth and death dates and fill in biographical lacunae. The Vienna Bureau of Meteorology, for instance, helped him verify the fact that Beethoven died during a violent storm: the weather report of March 26, 1827 noted that a thunderstorm with heavy winds...