Word: spare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock today at Soldiers Field the University and Freshman track athletes will initiate the spring season in a dual meet with M. I. T. In the six consecutive meets that the two University teams have had, the Crimson has always come out on top with a safe margin to spare. Harvard will likely win again today, but not without running up against keen competition in at least half a dozen events...
...coaching and training in each branch of athletics, coordinate the different branches, strengthen the weak spots and see that the strong ones are generally maintained and generally reinvigorate Harvard athletics and hold them on a sound and efficient basis. He would also devote such time as he could spare to building up intra-mural sport...
...Opposition parties supporting ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, to whom Hindenburg was also a national hero, bitterly denounced dragging the "old man of Hanover" into politics. A storm of criticism broke over the heads of the pro-monarchist leaders which did not spare the Field Marshal himself. It was commented that he was too old, that foreign opinion would turn against Germany if he were elected, that it was a sign of fright, weakness, imbecility on the part of the pro-monarchists to run him, that German business men were horrified at his selection, that he had not the least qualification...
...Couzens was asked to sign one until the Treasury had time to investigate the charges in the memorandum. Instead, he appeared on the floor of the Senate, read the memorandum, denounced it as persecution and declared he would sign no waiver. The Treasury, with only a few hours to spare, made a hasty calculation and notified the Senator that he owed $10,861,131.53- leaving the matter to be accurately determined or disallowed by the Tax Appeals Board...
Having learned to wield the saddle-maker's awl and, in his spare time, the pen, he forsook his trade, went to Bremen and became a journeyman. In Bremen, as is most of Germany's seaports, Socialism was finding hospitable entertainment in the hearts and minds of the common people. Young Ebert soon became identified with the Socialists and was to be seen most Sundays haranguing crowds on the merits of Marxian philosophy* but for all his energy he passed for a man of mediocre ability...