Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention has just been called to a news story in the Boston Post of July 13th, in which it stated that the editors of your magazine announced that "girlie magazines" are far ahead in the spare time reading habits of Harvard students. As publisher of the six most popular girlie books in the field, the results of your survey were most gratifying to me, since it adds weight to several theories I have evolved on this subject...
...since 1915; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The dean of Broadway's critics, Allen wrote determinedly unliterary reviews which had a great influence on the boxoffice; his paper served the mammoth garment industry, making him top authority on what show a visiting buyer could enjoy on a spare evening...
...where he had been since June 29, when his life prison sentence for treason, already commuted from death, was commuted again to confinement in a hospital. To the end, Pétain insisted that, as Premier in 1940, he capitulated to the Nazis and then collaborated with them to "spare" France. "You may judge me according to your conscience," he told the court. "Mine is clear...
Sarnoff got his first operator's job on Nantucket Island, a job so lonely that few operators wanted it ($70 a month, $40 home to mother). David used his spare time to study books on wireless as tirelessly as he had the Talmud. Soon his expert "fist" could send 45 words per minute steadily for eight hours-a pace not many could equal. After two years there, he got himself transferred to Long Island, at a $10 cut in pay, so that he could go to night school, where he finished a three-year electrical engineering course in twelve...
...once did the Amethyst get into dangerously shallow water. Below the boom, she met a patrol boat; Kerans decided to speed by as close as possible, thus give the smaller enemy craft a minimum chance to rake his decks. The Amethyst scraped by with a bare 18 inches to spare. Then a junk without lights loomed up ahead and was sliced in two. Then the biggest guns of all, at Woosung, were safely passed, and the Amethyst was in the clear. In the wide mouth of the Yangtse, she met H.M.S. Concord and the sweaty, half-starved crew...