Word: spare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four. (Unless you count the steering, spare and fly wheels...
...North African sea dunes, 60 miles from Cape Juby. Then a native trotted in to civilization with a letter from Major Larre-Borges. Moorish tribesmen had taken him and his comrades and their possessions into camp, he said. There must be a ransom. Uruguay cabled its diplomats to spare no cost. Spain mustered a military rescue party. Semi-financial negotiations moved. Commercial planes flew out to pick up the castaways...
...London-Cairo-Delhi air service (TIME, Jan. 10). The King-Emperor was graciously pleased to create Lady Maud a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She is the first woman ever to fly so many miles. There had been snow, rain, fog, sandstorms, but not a spare part was needed for the ship...
Some have pointed to the tall, spare, angular figure of President Few as the best guarantee against "monkey-bills" in the South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...
...ovaries can be 'regulated' afresh if one grafts in her the ovaries of a woman, which proves the close relationship between the higher apes and ourselves, since our organs are interchangeable. I therefore have reason to say that the higher apes constitute a station of spare [exchange] parts for the human machine...