Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have not had enough water to raise 150,000,000 bu. Great Britain and Ireland, almost wholly dependent on the world for wheat, consume more than 275,000,000 bu., produce less than a quarter of that amount. This year the Danube Basin will have no wheat to spare after feeding its own territory, and Spain also needs most of her wheat for her own people. Thus the wheat-importing countries of Europe were looking anxiously across the seas last week to the three principal countries with exportable surpluses?Argentina, Australia, Canada...
...goes to bed. When he talks about his work his deep-set blue eyes burn with an icy fire. He walks prodigious distances through the city streets. His most valued friends are the New York Public Library's somnolent pigeons. A life-long bachelor, Dr. Tesla is tall, spare, erect, parchment-skinned, beak-nosed. The mustache he once wore is gone...
Meanwhile the United Farmers' caucus, unimpressed by Mr. Justice Ives's opinion that Miss MacMillan is as serviceable as ever, had accepted Premier Brownlee's offer to spare the Party embarrassment by handing his resignation to the representative of George V in Alberta, Lieutenant Governor W. L. Walsh. No question of the United Farmers' right to continue to rule Alberta was raised. His Majesty's representative merely appointed another United Farmer, Richard Gavin Reid, Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Lands and Mines, to carry on as Premier...
Because France has won the last four races, one of her sons is confidently expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races...
...finished college. Last month Mrs. Smith received a Ph.D. at Indiana and next autumn his daughter Martha, eldest of the Smith children, will enter the university at 16. Affable and joke-loving, N. E. A. President Smith plays an occasional round of golf but spends most of his spare time on his single hobby: World Peace through Education...