Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This series is the biggest thing we've ever attempted," says Rice, who has made some 85 educational shows (including a series with Atom Physicist Edward Teller). "It needed to be done, if only as a historical document." The document was crudely etched. Because both funds and the spare time of modern scientists were at a premium, there were few rehearsals and few retakes. Budgetary corners were sharply cut, e.g., when Seaborg asked for a relief globe he got a weather balloon, and when that burst, made do with a beach ball. But the producers and performers...
...SPARE OUR TINY LAND...
...spent his nest egg as down payment on a rooming house, which he remodeled in his spare time and soon had filled with students. With the profit he made, he bought 47 acres of land, cut them up into three plots, sold them individually. Having made more money on the first two lots than he paid for the entire 47 acres, he bought himself another thriving rooming house. Finally he traded his first house for a third, making a profit on the deal...
...only $50 a month rent for a cottage with one bedroom, $12 more for each additional bedroom. The one-room apartments will rent for $35 a month. Residents will get free medical care in Salhaven's 32-bed convalescent hospital, swim in one of 15 pools, work off spare energy in a workshop making furniture for Salhaven's cottages and apartments...
...lost or overlooked some of the decade's juicy memories, e.g., the Scopes "monkey" trial, marathon dancing, flagpole sitting, Billy Sunday, the bathing beauty, Florida's real-estate boom, the Sacco-Vanzetti case-even (unaccountably) the advent of radio broadcasting. But the '20s had flavor to spare, and Jazz Age catches the tangy essences that should send oldtimers on a sentimental binge and plunge the younger set into wistful incredulity...