Word: spare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor E. L. Chaffe, G. '11, spent his summer in Vermont woods near President Coolidge's home. During his spare hours, he worked on a book to be published some time next year. The subject of the book is "Thermionic Vacuum Tubes...
...DARK CLOUD?Thomas Boyd? Scribners ($2.00). Because the skipper used to lick him, Hugh Turner ran away from his ship at Quebec, got down to Detroit by river. He met a man named Durham who was a gambler and decent and who in his spare moments punched tickets on the Under- ground Railway, the Negroes' accommodation train. They made out pretty well together, keeping away from Federal officers, until one day a Southern gentleman shot Durham in a card game. After that Hugh shipped on the Bald Eagle with Captain Hargusson and went up and down the Mississippi. That...
...Lyon, when the car ran up a steep bank, turned turtle, killed the chauffeur. The General escaped. On the same day M. Marcel Prevost, famed French author, was being driven near Montauban when a heavy truck ran into the automobile, smashed it badly, hurt no one. Thus did Providence spare two famed...
...children," she said, "I spare not my youngest even, my fair-haired boy, the comfort of my declining years; I devote you all to my country. Keep, back the foot of the invader from the soil of Augusta, or see my face no more...
...TIME, Oct. 15), Gen. Wu made no opposition and it was alleged that he had been "bought off." Apart from being a military genius, he is a man of culture, scientific and literary. He studies hard. Recently he began to learn English, employed a tutor, gave him his only spare hour-4:30 a. m. to 5:30 a. m. He is known as a "man who speaks softly and carries a big stick...