Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, having spent his student days at Balliol, and a period as tutor at Corpus Christi. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and since 1918 he has been Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
Receiving his master's degree in 1917, Mr. Siple spent several years teaching in Groton and then came to Harvard to prepare for Museum work. In the spring of 1927, he was appointed Assistant to the Directors of the Fogg Museum and the following year he received a lectureship in Harvard. Since then he has conducted courses in the Theory of Design in the Decorative Arts. In addition, he has been in charge of the students sent to Harvard by the Carnegie Corporation for the last three summers...
...cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions for growing cotton, should double the present output of Turkestan. Last week Mr. Davis told Moscow correspondents that $250,000,000 will be spent on this stupendous irrigation work, said that he will supervise. Pressed for details he spoke with mounting excitement...
...compile the annual report for such an organization is a long, hard task. Every sale, down to the last of the year's 150,000,000 needle production, must be accounted for; every penny spent on advertising or axe-handles must be included. An army of accountants the world over must tussle for months with figures before stockholders may know what they have earned. Last week Singer's President, Sir Douglas Alexander, made public the annual report...
...some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other expert was not explaining plays to them, or diagraming special hands, they spent the time playing bridge...