Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sell on credit. In Midland, big Dow Chemical Co. coined magnesium into "Dowmetal money" with a specified value of 20?. The City of Detroit went into technical default, its bonds slumped badly. But Michigan stayed cheerful. It was considered funny to sing to your friends "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime...
...light rain next morning, a dismal little gallery of 1,000 watched England run up 157 for four wickets, then clinch the series and the Ashes when Paynter, batting with Ames, slogged out a boundary hit that ended the test, 519 to 515, with six wickets to spare...
...Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll) who, to spare the feelings of the man she loves (Gary Grant), has to murder the villain (Louis Calhern) by hitting him on the head with bric-a-brac. A jury decides she is innocent. Good shot: Nancy Carroll trying to make up her mind to open her suitcase in a cabin on an excursion...
Then, too, a great many spend their 'spare time playing bridge, poker, or just plain, "bulling." 20.9 per cent do this in the Yard, 28.7 percent in Lowell, 18 per cent in Dunster, and 19.8 per cent in Leverett. At first the CRIMSON's Winchell started to classify those ways of spending time, but he found that this embarrassed people a great deal. For example, there was the chap who solemnly asserted that he spent all his time studying. "Yes, of course," Crimson chell agreed, politely, trying hard to avoid looking at the debrit of last night's poker game...
...University received $12,000,000 biennially. Although President Chase added a College of Fine & Applied Arts and a School of Physical Education, it was at no extra cost to the budget. He cut many a fiscal corner and last week the University had a cosy $2,500,000 to spare, more than half of which is car-marked for Illinois' medical school buildings in Chicago...