Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many ask permission to use TIME'S charts and maps. Since Chapin joined our staff in 1937, his work has been reproduced by foreign governments, the U.S. State Department, Air Force, Army, Navy, numerous universities, and publishers of textbooks and encyclopedias. At the moment he is devoting his spare " time to a four-color map in global perspective that he is doing for NATO under TIME sponsorship...
...this when we have nothing to say, indeed are not even consulted, about foreign troops stationed in our midst?" West German newspapers headlined the story, demanded the withdrawal of the "Roccos." The German Foreign Office complained to the French government, which shrugged that it had no other troops to spare...
...Copenhagen clock is the product of some 40 years' planning by onetime Locksmith Jens Olsen, who died in 1945. A self-taught astronomer, physicist and engineer, Olsen conceived the idea of his clock after seeing the famed astronomical clock in Strasbourg. He devoted all of his spare time to planning it and calculating its complex mathematical functions. With funds raised by clockmakers' societies, he completed the plans in 1944, lived just long enough to supervise the first months of production of the clock's 15,000 different parts. Since then, a million dollars has gone into...
Burchfield discovered the scenes that first made him famous in the back streets and industrial areas of Buffalo, where he took a job as a wallpaper designer, worked on art in his spare hours. By the time he decided to devote himself full time to his art, his realistic scenes of grim train yards, black iron drawbridges, rows of workers' unpainted houses had put him in the forefront of the American Scene painters of the 1930s. But as one critic quipped, Burchfield, with his prevailing gloomy mood (see cut above), seemed too often like Painter Edward Hopper...
William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to the President, spends his spare time honorably curating Type Specimens and Letter Designs. Edwin B. Bartram, long a breeder of bryophytes, presently holds the position of Honorary Curator of Mosses in the Farlow Herbarium...