Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

in three months the Army spent three-quarters as much as had been expended on the `` big Ditch '' in ten years.

These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

However, as much time as possible should be spent within the shelter to hold radiation exposure to a minimum.

Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..

Palfrey's autobiography contains a melodramatic account of two perilous days spent among the planters of Attakapas, `` many of whom were coarse & passionate people, much excited by what they heard of my plans ''.

The President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

Doubleday spent much of his time writing.

The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare.

* Matthew Jay, the late singer-songwriter, also spent much of his life in the town.

That such people have spent so much of their time thinking about who?

" By 1928, Fuller was living in Greenwich Village and spending much of his time at the popular café Romany Marie's, where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and Eugene O ' Neill several years earlier.

Watterson, who drew his first cartoon at age eight, spent much time in childhood alone, drawing and cartooning.

Watterson spent much of his career trying to change the climate of newspaper comics.

In Asia, there was " Breast Mountain ", which had a cave where the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma ( Da Mo ) spent much time in meditation.

Lancaster grew up in East Harlem and spent much of his time on the streets, where he developed great interest and skill in gymnastics while attending the DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was a basketball star.

Bruno spent much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot John Canaparius may have written a life of Saint Adalbert.

Nils spent much time in his garden and often showed flowers to Linnaeus and told him their names.

Whereas Haydn spent much of his working life as a court composer, Mozart wanted public success in the concert life of cities.

From a monetary standpoint, governments control just how much money is in circulation worldwide, which plays an immense role on how money is spent in one's own country.

His spare time is spent in soaring gliders.

As a teenager, Marvin " spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey, and bobwhite in the wilds of the then-uncharted Everglades.

By then he was spending most of his spare time learning as much as he could about Linear B, some of his study time being spent under the covers at night with a flashlight.

Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.

" Antonioni's films tend to have spare plots and dialogue, and much of the screen time is spent lingering on certain settings, such as the seven-minute continuous take in The Passenger, or the scene in L ' Eclisse in which Monica Vitti stares curiously at electrical posts accompanied by ambient sounds of wires clanking.

In Uppsala, Foucault spent much of his spare time in the university's Carolina Rediviva library, where he made use of their Bibliotheca Walleriana collection of texts on the history of medicine for his ongoing research.

Despite constantly changing schools, Nasser spent most of his spare time reading, particularly in 1933 when his uncle happened to live near the National Library of Egypt.

Lomonosov had been taught to read as a boy by his neighbor Ivan Shubny, and he spent every spare moment with his books.

He spent his spare time sculpting and illustrating and his natural talent lead to him being employed first as draftsman in an architect's office and then as a sports cartoonist for the San Francisco Daily News.

People seem to be content with what they have ; their poverty is not depicted as unbearable, and it does not prevent them from being fervent patriots (" Every man's fust duty is ter get as many children as ' e bloomin ' well can ") or from enjoying their spare time ( which is often spent in pubs ; also Liza drinks a lot ).

The Zoarites then spent several years in the 1820s digging the canal and thus were able to pay off their loans on time with much money to spare.

He was a wood carver for a furniture business in New York, and spent spare time in his basement carveing wooden horses as a hobby.

He spent much of his spare time reading history and was knowledgeable in the jus consuetudinarium of the kingdom, later collected by lawyers like John of Ibelin and Philip of Novara as " the assizes of Jerusalem ".

Morris and his friends spent their spare time hanging out by the Strand under Hermosa Beach pier, where they experimented with drugs: " I'd get off work, and we'd get up to trouble ," he later recalled, " smoking angel dust, snorting elephant tranquilizers.

All his spare time was spent in studying the early Fathers with Du Vergier, and laying plans for a reform of the Church.

At Eton Powell spent much of his spare time at the Studio, where a sympathetic art master encouraged him to develop his talent as a draftsman and his interest in the visual arts.

He spent all the money he could spare on books, including copying classics that were not then in print.

He spent all his spare time in the study of classics, history, metaphysics and political economy and in learning German, French and Italian.

Van der Waals — at that time head of an elementary school — wanted to become a HBS teacher in mathematics and physics and spent two years studying in his spare time for the required examinations.

Fit and spare in his 70s, Spruance spent most of his retirement days wearing old khakis and work shoes and working in his garden and greenhouse.

He still felt a desire to become an artist, and all his spare moments were spent drawing and painting from nature.

By the late 1670s the king spent much of his spare time with Madame de Maintenon, discussing politics, religion and economics.

Brewer spent his spare time contributing to a number of ornithological publications, including John James Audubon's Ornithological Biography.

He spent his spare time studying birds and became an accomplished taxidermist.