Word: spare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...supplied in abundance to our men abroad by means of the A. L. A. War Service, the provision of all other good reading depends on gifts only. Current magazines, as well as readable books, are especially desired. Members of the University are requested to give whatever they can spare either to the Phillips Brooks House clothing collectors or to Dr. C. O. S. Mawson, of the A. L. A. Overseas Dispatch Office, in the basement of Widener Library...
...Most of them sleep steadily from the moment they are brought in on stretchers out of the ambulance to the time they are put on the operating table. In fact, we operate upon them without taking the stretchers out from under them, so as to spare them the pain of being moved. They have all had morphine so that they are usually comfortable. It is a wonderful blessing. Each one has a cross marked with iodine on his forehead, showing that he has received his injection of serum to prevent lockjaw...
...often he eats not at all); and always he watches and works and fights. But this is the war of movement--semi-open warfare--and the comforts of the trenches are unknown quantities, for to secure comforts requires time, and there has been no time to spare on such things in this sector--not since July 15. But if the Boche can be kept on the move, now they're started back, no one will kick about the rest of it, I'm sure...
Thus far, fifty-five men altogether have been reporting daily for practice, and every day three crews have been out on the Charles. Each man has been assigned hours for practice in order to give more individual attention to the candidates. Everybody who is interested and who can spare the time, is urged to report to Coach Haines in the afternoons at the Newell Boathouse...
...Entertainers of all sorts are especially needed. This is a splendid chance for the Junior Company men who are interested in such matters to learn something about social conditions in the vicinity of Boston and Cambridge. All men who would like the work and have a little time to spare are invited to consult the Social Service Secretary at the Phillips Brooks House...