Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...license. Said Hero Untiedt: "Just because people once said I was a hero doesn't make me any better than the next fellow. I know I should have had a license but I've had a lot of trouble making ends meet and I couldn't spare the money...
Young Editor Luce, tall, spare, blond, had a staccato voice, a staccato personality, an extraordinary power of concentration...
...trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying F.W.D. trucks in quantity. When the U. S. joined the Wrar, the U. S. Army took over F.W.D.'s entire output. By 1918 it had bought 16,000 F.W.D. trucks, and spare parts equivalent to 14,000 additional trucks. F.W.D.'s 15,000 shares had run up to $580 a share...
From the solid shoulders of ruddy, jovial Sportsman John Grenville Bates the responsibility of picking best in snow slid like water from a spaniel's back. Against one of the same sturdy shoulders a gun butt is often set, for John Bates can spare enough time from his Wall Street brokerage business (Taylor, Bates & Co.) to hunt woodcock, grouse, pheasant at the ancient Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County...
...Counselor on extra-curricular reading in this field. This Counselor is to pay particular attention to Freshmen. It is just this group which most urgently needs some officer to foster an interest in a knowledge of our culture and civilization--a knowledge which can be pursued in spare time throughout the remaining three years of college, and which will be a bulwark in later life, comparable to the Englishman's keen appreciation of the classics...