Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often as not, job-seekers are not in desperate need for money, but take on some part-time work just to fill their spare time or their wallets. These are the men who bring in such diverse talents that the Employments Bureau has recently had to set up a special Entertainment Bureau to handle their needs...
...pennant untimely from Cleveland's grasp, Billy Southworth and his tight-lipped little band of disciples would have taken a week of the most concerted and unjust verbal battering in the history of baseball. His magnificent achievement in bringing a second-division club home first, with room to spare, would have gone by unnoticed amid futile and prejudicial controversy...
...biggest & best art collections. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which he directs, bulges with a round half-million treasures. But the men who bought and sold them down the centuries, Taylor thinks, are almost as interesting as the works themselves. For twelve years he has been working in his spare time on a history of art-collecting from King Tut to Napoleon-the only work of its kind in English...
...friendly understanding that he would still be called on for odd chores as a private lawyer. Thus bolstered, Lawyer Pressman moved to New York, bought a $30,000 house in suburban Mt. Vernon and started running for Congress as an American Labor Party candidate from Brooklyn. He spent his spare time helping mastermind Henry Wallace's campaign for the presidency. But last week he presented a bill for his first legal assignment from the C.I.O. It presumably insured him against ever getting another...
...engine will operate efficiently in desert heat or Arctic cold, and weighs only one-third as much as liquid-cooled jobs of equivalent horsepower. Developed by Continental Engineers Carl F. Bachle and Edward A. Hulbert, the new engine is simple in design and requires only a small stock of spare parts...