Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suburb of Merion he has built (behind a loft. spite fence) a French Renaissance chateau that contains the greatest collection of modern art in the U. S., one of the greatest in the world. Dr. Barnes is no rich dunce with a fondness for pretty pictures. To occupy the spare time of his little factory staff he gave a course of lectures, assisted by his friend, Philosopher John Dewey. Since Artist William Glackens first got him interested in painting, he has traveled widely, read voraciously. His book The Art in Painting is a standard work on modern art. Dealers fear...
...sextet this season are considered good since the number of regulars left over from last year, and the quality of the men from the Freshman team is enough to insure a strong squad from which Coach Stubbs can build up the first and second teams with material to spare...
...suddenly stopped playing "The Soldiers' Song" last week. Patriotic audiences, accustomed to stand and sing it as the Free State's national anthem, demanded explanations. They were told that one Peter Kearney, by profession a housepainter but acknowledged to have composed "The Soldiers' Song" in his spare time, has hired lawyers. The lawyers are demanding a royalty fee for every time the national anthem is played. Last week Dublin's larger theatres defied Housepainter Kearney, continued to play "The Soldiers' Song," dared his lawyers...
...fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60¢ a day. This Royal Air Force mechanic, Aircraftsman Thomas Edward Shaw, known to the world as Col. T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, whose most intellectual duty at present is "tinkering with engines," has just finished a four-year spare-time job of translating The Odyssey into English prose...
...removal of this restriction would be a considerable aid in the solution of the present library problem. Such an action would not only widen the selection of books an supplement the now curtailed facilities of the College Library, but also it would spare certain Houses the expense of purchasing duplicates of expensive sets owned by other Houses. Furthermore there would not be the danger presented by inter-house eating, overcrowding, since the libraries are comparatively equal in size and advantages...