Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a few spare minutes of sightseeing in Manhattan, Prince Suksawat of Thailand, who went to Princeton from 1931 to 1933, paid a dressing-room visit to Actor Yul Brynner who plays the part of the prince's grandfather in The King and I. How was the Prince addressed? The correct title, he said, was "Your Serene Highness," but his friends call...
Target for Tonight. In Los Angeles, Mrs. George B. Kane won a divorce after she testified that her husband spent all his spare time in front of the television set and paid little attention to her except when he "threw things...
Hockey rinks, spare and simple, can be built for much less than the $600,000 originally suggested. A few years ago, Phillips Andover constructed an artificial, outdoor rink for $70,000, and the Taft School contracted for the same thing, with a minor modification...
...worked on a computing machine. He wrote for the Britannica and other encyclopedias on an imposing range of subjects - Age, Apiaries, Arsenic, Asphyxia, Electricity, Electrodynamics, Galvanism, Phrenology, Solid Geometry, and Syncope. He became a collector of chess problems, dabbled in mnemonics, astronomy, entomology, geography, and geology. In his spare time he also took up botany, and it was botany that led him to compile the Thesaurus...
...long as the Fogg Large Room is the only spare hall which the Registrar's Office can fall back on when the big courses come hot and heavy, there is some excise for its use. But now that Burr Hall has opened in all its vitreous glory, there is no longer any reason for damning undergraduates to the depths of Fogg. The new building contains two lecture halls, each with a seating capacity of over two hundred, enough to take care of most large courses...