Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish merchant. As a youth, he was enchanted by those sirens of British socialism, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who were warbling their Fabian lays over the bleaching bones of Karl Marx. At Oxford, Laski joined the Fabian Society, campaigned for woman suffrage, was a brilliant student in his spare time. When World War I came, Laski disapproved, but tried to enlist. He was turned down because of a weak heart. He went to lecture at Canada's venerable McGill University, there got himself thoroughly disliked for attacking War Prime Minister Lloyd George...
...Home Office Minister James Chuter Ede, 62. Wiry, spare, a former schoolteacher and teachers' unionist, Minister Ede has the Cabinet's general utility...
Eleven-year-old John Muir came to Wisconsin with his Scottish immigrant parents in 1849, worked hard on the family farm. In his spare time he built from wood and metal scraps a series of locks, clocks and other gadgets that were much admired by curious neighbors. At 22 he went to the State Fair at Madison to exhibit an "early rising machine" that dumped its victims out of bed with split-second accuracy. His next stop was the University of Wisconsin, where fellow students crowded his room to see such contraptions as his "student desk," which whirred and banged...
Since 1634, when Oberammergau's elders pledged perpetual production of the play at ten-year intervals (if God would spare their village from the plague), the schedule has been broken only three times: in 1870 by the Franco-Prussian War, in 1920 by the aftermath of World War I, in 1940 by World War II. The last performance, in 1934, celebrated the Play's tercentenary...
...Student Employment Office, which seeks to place students in spare-time jobs while they are at College, has operated continuously through the war, said Teele. The Alumni Placement Office, which was supported chiefly by the Alumni Office, closed in 1941, he continued...