Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...News in its editorial page pointed out, the Harvard-Dartmouth game a week before was well attended despite the inclement weather. The crowd was in no sense of the word a spectacle that day; the 52,000 who spent three hours in the rain must have been actuated only by the desire to witness a good football game. Saturday, scores of undergraduates spent the afternoon elsewhere, mainly because of the pre-game supposition that William and Mary would afford little opposition...
Finances. As usual the Republicans had more campaign cash than the Democrats. Semi-final reports showed that the Republican National Committee had spent $573,173 while the Democratic National Committee was spending $159,233. Chairman John Jacob Raskob kept his Democratic National Committee alive with loans and contributions totalling $220,000. Bernard Mannes Baruch was financing, practically singlehanded, the Democratic fight to win Senate seats...
Where the money was spent indicated where the party chiefs anticipated the hottest contests. To hold their House strength the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee sent $12,500 into Ohio, $7,000 into Missouri, $4,000 into Indiana, $4,000 into West Virginia, $3,750 into Kentucky. In smaller amounts $23,000 was divided among South Dakota, Tennessee, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Illinois, Colorado and Massachusetts. Democrat headquarters was spending heavily to win Senate seats in Oklahoma, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio. A thousand Democratic dollars had been despatched to Oregon to beat Republican Willis Chatman Hawley...
...permit one fourth of the time theoretically assigned to acquiring this back-ground to be spent in non-academic work is to destroy the balance between curricular and extra-curricular education. Military and Naval Science do not merit college credit...
With the second team's 30-yard line as a starting point, and the goal line as a final target, the University team spent 45 minutes in a lively scrimmage with the scrubs yesterday. Team A was given the ball throughout the entire session, while the Seconds served as buffers in what was doubtless meant to be a drive for a powerful offensive eleven...