Word: spend
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...during recent months, almost engulfed every channel of publicity in America, without adequate challenge on the part of those who supported the 18th Amendment," Prohibitionist Charles Reading Jones of Chicago, chairman of the American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, announced that within a year he & associates would spend $3,000,000 to insert Dry advertising in 2,668 daily newspapers, 8,000 weekly and semiweekly publications, 20 or more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started to raise $10,000,000 for Dry propaganda. Its advisory committee was then...
...TIME will print no more letters on this subject unless it is taken up by Congress Best financial opinion is unanimous that to raise and pay to veterans $2,775,000,000 would retard, not hasten prosperity. Rather, let the people who now have the $2,775,000,000 spend it instead of hoarding.-ED. Byrd Brother 1. Lindbergh In-Law Sirs: "Ohio's Bulkley" does appear a strong prospect for the next Democratic Presidential nomination (TIME, Nov. 24), but even stronger looms Virginia's famed ex-Governor Harry Flood Byrd. No cigar chewer, no derby hat donner...
...existence, his extracurricular activities in the college itself, his eating and drinking, his relations with Mayfair and with Bohemia, his contacts and his clubs--in general, upon the things that really occupy every portion of his day and night save the begrudged or casual hour or two he may spend at lectures or in the library as insurance against the ever-present menace of examinations...
Last week Science (weekly) reported that Dr. Max Mapes Ellis, professor of physiology at the University of Missouri, would carry on a winter's research in mussel-raising for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Fresh water mussels, source of pearl buttons, spend the first six weeks of their lives attached to fish upon which they feed. After that the buttons-to-be break away, support themselves. Dr. Ellis has found a nutrient medium to take the place of the fish, containing all the substances a growing mussel needs. Next spring fishery officials hope to plant in the Mississippi...
...Princetonian which appeared last February had as its title "Princeton in the World's Service" and purported to show that Princeton men have made themselves felt in national, as well as international progress. While we may be proud of having had such men as James Madison and Woodrow Wilson spend their undergraduate days here, still an investigation of the actual number of Alumni who are, or have been in political life is far less gratifying...