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Word: spare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Observers could not tell whether this was the same extroverted feline which spends most of its spare time stalking wild game in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2 Students Foiled in Attempted Cat Rescue | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

...hard, shocking fact they faced was that the U.S. was out of combat-ready reserve strength. Only the 82nd Airborne Division was still left at home and at the ready. Behind them in the Army's production line was an assortment of National Guard (four divisions and spare parts) and marine outfits still in training, and the newly formed Regular 4th Division which would not be set until late spring. Equally as serious, U.S. industry had not been ordered into even a creeping mobilization. "We are moving," Mobilization Overseer Stuart Symington testified last week before the Senate Banking Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Black & White | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Every day letters stream into his office on Madison Avenue posing all kinds of church problems. In his spare time he is making radio, TV and church appearances to discuss religious affairs. On Sunday of this week, Episcopalian Pleuthner preached a sermon at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Harrison, N.Y. and a few days later was scheduled to appear on the Tex and Jinx show. Reason for Adman Pleuthner's new role: his current book, Building Up Your Congregation (Wilcox & Follett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Sales Approach | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...years, U.S. educators have been kicking themselves for their shortsightedness: when radio came in, they let it go commercial without even putting up a fight, left themselves with only the crumbs the networks saw fit to spare. Some of them do not intend to make the same mistake with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TV for Teacher | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Letterman Bill Timpson and Jim O'Brien are the spare linemen. Timpson is fast and scrappy, and O'Brien is a converted defenseman who shows well in his new post. Although neither are placed in a line now, Weiland quickly points out that it is too early in the year to call the present lines definite...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

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