Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager of TVA's power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems at first hand...
After 2½ years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus (where he spent his spare time studying law), Yankey decided he could do better, asked for a second jury trial on a technicality: since he had been sentenced without a jury conviction, he was entitled to be sentenced by a three-judge panel. He won a new trial. Last week, the same crime brought 41-year-old Cecil Yankey a second verdict. Said a Highland County murder jury: "Guilty" -with no recommendation of mercy...
Hollywood's well-turned Ava Gardner issued a firm announcement that she was "through with 'cheesecake.'" "For eight years," she said, "I did nothing but leg art ... I spent all my time . . . posing with practically nothing on. I've portrayed all the seasons, all kinds of weather conditions ... I deserve a change...
...know much about education," Hutchins once said just before launching into one of his attacks, "it's that I know nothing else." The son of a Presbyterian preacher1 who was also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around & about colleges all his life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about his father's class, the long hours...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 18--Yale University and New Haven in general spent a quiet, but intense few hours tonight digging in for a long, cold football weekend...