Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

From fourteen states and three foreign countries they come to spend the months from mid-September to June.

He would come home in the evening tired and discouraged -- in no frame of mind to play with their three children, or spend much time chatting with his wife.

Baseballs cost three dollars apiece, a hefty sum at the time, which in 1900 would be equal to $ today ; club owners were therefore reluctant to spend much money on new balls if not necessary.

Jonah spent three days in the belly of the fish ; Jesus will spend three days in the grave.

That same year, Sun sent Chiang to spend three months in Moscow studying the Soviet political and military system.

Accra was followed by a visit to Funchal on the Portuguese colony of Madeira ; they would spend most of the next nine years on the island, only returning to England for three or four months in the summer.

Although the recruits had signed on as part of a scientific expedition and expected to spend their three month assignment collecting botanical and biological samples, once out to sea they were told, " Your names will go down in history " and that the islands would become " famous air bases in a route that will connect Australia with California ".

Subsequently, the two made an agreement that they would spend nine nights in Þrymheimr and then next three nights in Nóatún ( or nine winters in Þrymheimr and another nine in Nóatún according to the Codex Regius manuscript ).

He was ordered to pay a fine of three pounds or spend two months in prison.

In 1921 Frisch received a fellowship from the university which enabled him to spend three years studying economics and mathematics in France and England.

Following graduation from flight school, White was assigned to the 22nd Fighter Day Squadron at Bitburg Air Base, Germany and would spend three and a half years in Germany flying in F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre squadrons.

One such astronaut goes off into space for three months at a time, only returning to earth for three consecutive days to spend time with his wife and son.

He was already familiar with the work of Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter, who had worked on French translations of Macbeth, La forza del destino and Aida with du Locle, and the three proceeded to spend nine months on major revisions of the French text and the music to create a 4-act version.

Originally intended to spend a year in Leipzig, Sullivan stayed there for three years.

Compared to non-frail elderly people, people with intermediate frailty scores ( 2 or 3 ) are twice as likely to have post-surgical complications, spend 50 % more time in the hospital, and are three times as likely to be discharged to a skilled nursing facility instead of to their own homes.

Most trout such as Lake trout live in freshwater lakes and / or rivers exclusively, while there are others such as the Rainbow trout which spend two or three years at sea before returning to freshwater to spawn, a habit more typical of salmon.

Her second book, A Way of Looking, won the Somerset Maugham award and marked a turning point, as the prize money allowed her to spend nearly three months in Rome, which was a revelation.

He would spend the final three decades of his life proselytizing for the socialist cause.

Vintage champagne must spend a minimum three years on its lees with some of premier champagne houses keeping their wines on lines for upwards of five to ten years.

After three years of searching for an occupant, the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) announced on March 20, 2007 that it would spend approximately US $ 4. 1 billion to move its headquarters and most of its Washington-based offices to a new facility on the site, beginning with the United States Coast Guard in 2010.

Missionaries typically spend one to three months in a Missionary Training Center where they study the scriptures, learn new languages, and otherwise prepare themselves to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and understand the culture in which and the people among whom they will be living.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

For most of the year, aardwolves spend time in shared territories consisting of up to a dozen dens, which are occupied for six weeks at a time.

Many desert annuals are therophytes, because their seed-to-seed life cycle is only weeks and they spend most of the year as seeds to survive dry conditions.

Candidates spend approximately 21 weeks at the FBI Academy, where they receive over 500 classroom hours and over 1, 000 simulated law enforcement hours to train.

On 20 August 1588 the flagship of the Spanish Armada, El Gran Grifón, was shipwrecked in the cove of Stroms Heelor, forcing its 300 sailors to spend six weeks living with the islanders.

One of them saw two words of the joke and had to spend a few weeks in hospital.

Observant Jews spend the weeks before Passover in a flurry of thorough housecleaning, to remove every morsel of chametz from every part of the home.

Investigations often take weeks or months to complete, during which time detectives spend much of their time away from the streets, in interviews and courtrooms, for example.

The young spend their first six weeks below the ground being nursed.

The laboratory annually hosts approximately 3, 000 guest researchers who spend two weeks or longer in Oak Ridge ; about 25 percent of these visitors are from industry.

A FIS World Cup downhill, for example, requires a team of several hundred course workers that may spend over two weeks preparing a course prior to a week of racing, during which the course workers will continue to maintain the course.

Eastwood was then offered the role of Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, but declined as he did not want to spend weeks on location in the Philippines.

Juveniles are targeted by a number of fish, cephalopods and birds ; Litopenaeus vannamei juveniles experience 90 % mortality in the 6 – 12 weeks they spend in Mexican lagoons, and this is thought to be due almost entirely to predation.

Common patterns are for students to spend one-two days per week at the vocational school and three-four days doing the apprenticeship at the host company ; alternatively they alternate between some weeks attending classes at the vocational school and some weeks attending industry courses at an industry training centre.

Later, in January 2009, it was announced that live samples of C. elegans from the University of Nottingham would spend two weeks on the International Space Station that October as part of a project to explore the effects of zero gravity on muscle development and its physiology.

In that game, Jackson fractured five cervical vertebrae, which caused him to spend six weeks in the hospital, and another month in a neck cast.

Stein and Toklas had plans to visit England to sign a contract for the publication of Three Lives, to spend a few weeks there, and then journey to Spain.

They would spend weeks creating all the dance sequences in a secluded rehearsal space before filming would begin, working with a rehearsal pianist ( often the composer Hal Borne ) who in turn would communicate modifications to the musical orchestrators.

Interstate roads were considered a luxury, something only for wealthy travelers who could spend weeks riding around in their automobiles.

The song spent 13 weeks at the top of the U. S. Hot Latin Tracks and would go on to spend 13 weeks at the top of the World Latin Chart.

In the winter and early spring, they form hunting bands that spend weeks at a time in the forest.

Competitive junior corps spend roughly 8 – 10 weeks on tour, practicing and performing full-time.

Characters are required to spend many weeks training after an experience-generating adventure in order to increase skill levels.