Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Borrowing most of the equipment, the three young experimenters found a sufficiently large magnet in a wooden shed behind Lyman Laboratory and set to work--during nights, Sundays, every spare moment. Unknowingly they were working against time, for 3,000 miles away Bloch was constructing a similar experiment...
...Miglia. But the betting favorites were the Germans and their hotshot Mercédès-Benz racers, which finished one-two in last summer's Le Mans 24-hour race. Headed by Engineer Alfred Neubauer, the Germans arrived weeks early with 24 mechanics and a truckload of spare parts, then drilled like a football team. Daily driving sessions were followed by nightly blackboard drills, and each mile of the course was memorized...
...paintings contain nearly equal parts of the abstract crystal and the amorphous potato: precise landscapes splashed with blocks of colors that happen to interest him. When Piper finds a combination he likes, he uses it again & again. He continues to look for new combinations and new techniques. His spare time lately has been spent with wax-crayon colors and in floating paint on water in a bathtub, then lifting off the bright swirling patterns on to a piece of paper. He will have a Manhattan show next year, and is "fiddling around" between. themes. "I don't think...
Jacobsen, a tall (6 ft. 1 in.), spare man with a lined, ascetic face, bright brown eyes and explosive energy, has the courage to take big risks, and when necessary, the courage to lose. But he wins far oftener than he loses. He wins because he hunts oil in the ground with the same passion and dedication that inspired Captain Ahab, an oil hunter of another day, in his pursuit of Moby Dick. By so dedicating himself, Alfred Jacobsen has made his Amerada Petroleum Corp. the most famed independent oil hunter in the oil industry. Amerada...
...housework. She is apparently allowed only one part-time maid one day a week, spends a modest $325 a year for her clothes and $40 more for "personal beautification." Politically, she is apt to be Republican, usually voting just the way her husband does. In whatever spare time she has, she gets through about twelve books a year...