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Word: sparely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading questions of her fashionable London counsel, Norman Birkett. To 19 of his 31. soothing and descriptive queries, she had only to answer, "Yes." She also answered, "It did," "No," and "Yes I did." Broadly speaking, the case against Mr. Simpson who, like any husband anxious to spare his wife's name, had committed the technical adultery necessary for a divorce in England, was summed up in the following letter signed by Mrs. Simpson which was introduced last week in evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stag at Bay | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...years. His daily stint was to make up the afternoon sport spages of a Boston paper, which meant getting in to the office every morning at 7.30 o'clock--that magic hour again. In the afternoon he wrote a couple of stories for his paper. His spare time he spent on study, but he got through all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

Facts pertaining to business occupations will require more time for most Seniors to assimilate them than they will be willing to spare in the busy second half of the Senior years. Those men who can devote odd hours now to setting the question of what to do after graduation will have at their disposal many references in the University libraries and the chance for extensive investigation of opportunities reported by friends. For those students who show particular interest in some business or other the Placement Office is now arranging field trips to local companies for observation purposes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Placement Office Invites All Seniors to Register for Employment | 10/29/1936 | See Source »

...Vienna they stopped at the same hotel (TIME, Sept. 21). But Mr. Simpson, as a loyal British subject, could not institute proceedings for divorce in which His Majesty might appear as corespondent. Last week Mr. Simpson did just about what any disgruntled English husband does who wishes to spare his wife's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Innocents Abroad | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Department of Commerce totted up U. S. aviation exports for the first seven months of 1936, revealed a rise of some 30% over the same period last year. The $11,639,450 worth of orders from abroad went for 294 aircraft ($6,416,369); 409 engines ($1,902,768); spare parts ($3,100,270); parachutes ($220,043). Best U. S. customer was China, which paid $1,780,739 for 34 airplanes, 13 engines, various parts. Next biggest buyers were: Argentina ($237,670); Colombia ($148,002); Italy ($113,351); French Equatorial Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Statistics | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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