Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope of final victory and freedom." From Sumatra, Reader B. Siregar wrote that he is a 30-year-old Indonesian student now taking an Australian correspondence course in civil engineering. To pay for the course, he began teaching his own class in bookkeeping and English, and in his spare time enjoyed that universal sport -fishing. Wrote he: "Here in Sumatra, the fish we love to catch is the silvery-white jurung, which grows to about ten pounds...
Said the Globe and Mail columnist in an appropriate final word: "Spare us any more of these symbols which evoke . . . religious bigotry, boll-weevil decadence and depraved mumbo jumbo...
Incentive to Build. Industry's biggest hope lies in the expansion of generating facilities, a good deal of which has already taken place. Power output, which fell 150,000 kw. short of contracted demand last year, should be enough this year to meet all contracts, with some to spare. Still other additions are well under way, including such major hydroelectric sources as the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, scheduled for power production...
...busses waited. "Do you think I oughta hide my bursar's card in my shoe?" worried one bandsman. Finally, the band manager returned. "We need $250 bail. Give us what you can spare, so we can get out of here," he said. There was a simultaneous movement toward wallets. "Here's twenty, is that enough?" "I can lend five...
...spite of everything, Sabrina Fair does have two big names for the marquee and shows every sign of a prosperous long run. For this reason, Miss Sullavan's many admirers should boycott the play to spare her going through the role night after night. She has suffered enough...