Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shameful that the New Yorker-like, the mature, the cosmopolitan CRIMSON should sound like the newspaper of a whistle-stop: It must fairly be admitted that the latter at least spare their readers a diagram of form, unless they have by mischance become pretentious...
...plan put games within reach of more people than can attend them under the current system, but it would encourage greater use of the Universities athletic facilities. These facilities are abundant and varied because the College officials decided that broad physical training was worthwhile. The plan would also spare the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of having to dip into its capital (as it did last year) to pay the H.A.A.'s debts. This capital should be used for scholarships, buildings, and improvements in the academic program...
Most of Foley's spare time today is spent studying Vermont folklore and humor, on which he is an acknowledged expert...
...could get up in the morning, brush her teeth, and go downstairs to stare at a fried egg in stony silence. The egg generally seemed to be staring back, and after bumming a cigarette from a friend, she could make her nine o'clock class with five minutes to spare...
...David Eccles are deeply conscious of it. They know that this is a country which must live on its wits, not on its resources. They know that the Briton is born with, or has acquired through the centuries, a gift for leadership which the world can ill afford to spare. They know Britons are tired, but they don't think Britons are ready to abdicate...