Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families that make up the year-round population of Peggy's Cove were busy getting ready for summer. Every spare room was reserved, even tenting space was at a premium. Painters, poets, writers, photographers and just plain admirers of rugged beauty were about to move...
...lives alone in a book-lined Chelsea flat, rides before breakfast when she can spare the time, puts in an anonymous day's work in the Economist's poky offices, over a teashop in the Strand. She is an inveterate, if slightly wistful, operagoer. She lunches and dines with politicians and economists, who admire her intellectual footwork without mistaking her for a heavyweight. She went on the BBC's board of governors last year and had to give up broadcasting...
...idea for the Mass Education Movement came to spare, spindly Jimmy Yen, now 53, when he was thousands of miles from home. A member of China's scholar aristocracy and a graduate of Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken...
...years ago, prospering Watercolorist Dehn had a yen to go back to his crayons and litho stone. Last week the 60 lithographs he had finished in his spare moments were on exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. A good many of them were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...
Felix has marked difficulties with the language but despite dialectical handicap he cuts through with ease if something is really on his mind. Passers-by do a double-take when they see him in animated conversation with such figures as Pound, Morize, or Copeland. During spare minutes he likes to scan his stock of magazines. Indeed, only an overriding sense of nationality, ranks in his makeup with this semiliterate but deadly earnest intellectual streak. A leader in Hellenic causes, he has helped to form the Megalopolitan Club of the United States to raise money for the construction of modern schools...