Word: spare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commotion in San Francisco harbor last week as the Dollar liner President Pierce glided in through the Golden Gate from the Orient. Whistles screamed. Bands blared. Flags flew. Warped into Pier 44, she was quickly boarded by octogenarian Shipowner Robert Dollar who hurried about looking for an erect, spare, tropic-tanned man. He found him on deck, carrying a tightly rolled silk umbrella, and gave him a tremendous handshake which carried with it the welcome of the whole U.S. The browned voyager was none other than Henry Lewis Stimson, returning from the post of Governor-General of the Philippines...
...delicate question of calling in consulting physicians with or without the consent of the attending doctor is the first to be discussed. Here Doctor Hawes is entirely on the side of the patient, and does not spare his fellow-practitioners who object to having their judgment questioned. On the other side of the picture he arraigns the excitable patients who send for their doctor at unreasonable hours on slight pretexts...
...York World under famed, dynamic Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope. After a year, he went with his school and college classmate, Henry Robinson Luce, to be a reporter for the late Publisher Munsey's Baltimore News. Thence, having got as far as they could in spare hours with the Newsmagazine Idea, they returned, jobless and with a few hundred dollars, to New York...
...language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...
...restore his vigor by a few days in the snowy open spaces. This year the attack was so long delayed the Vagabond thought an immunity had been established, but last Thursday's blizzard made Cambridge look so unlike its customary rather grimy self that yesterday he sallied forth. To spare the more gruesome details, the morning's jaunt on snowshoes managed to give him a very intimate acquaintance with the snow by tripping him up every time one of the attractions of nature he had come to see drew his attention away from a fixed spot about two feet...