Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies equipment and referees as it does for the Houses, and Intramural Director Samborski contributes his help, there is no provision for trophies or managers' salaries. House athletic secretaries receive $150 per year and their assistants, $50, from the HAA. The freshman secretary's salary is paid from spare Union funds, and the team managers receive nothing. Moreover, as late-comers, the freshmen suffers more than anyone else from lack of facilities...
...Theme. Stationed on the West Coast, Percy spent his spare time studying West Coast industries and the causes of strikes. His reports so impressed McNabb that when Chuck Percy was discharged (as lieutenant), he became Bell & Howell's industrial relations and personnel director. As such, he plugged his main theme: workers had to be given a sense of importance and "belonging" to the company...
...Letter to Three Wives (20th Cenury-Fox) is a bright, unusual comedy that sets itself some high hurdles and clears them all-mostly with room to spare. The picture begins as three young matrons in station-wagon suburbia learn that one of their husbands has run off with a feared and envied local charmer. Leaving the runaway husband's identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard...
...Eagles showed ample evidence to support their top rating in local hockey circles. They had shooting power to spare, passing that consistently found a free man in a dangerous spot, and a first defense pair that spent the evening spilling ambitious Crimson forwards...
Only a few weeks ago Hennessy, who has taken just three vacations in 48 years of hard work, announced that he would retire as the $85,000-a-year chairman of the Hotels Statler Co., Inc. Ever since, he has been worrying about what to do with his spare time. Accepting the Childs job, he said: "Childs . . . has a great name, but has slipped financially and in popularity. It should be brought back to its rightful place...