Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Connecticut's hilly preen Litchficld County has seemed to two young Yalemen an ideal place to found preparatory schools. In 1893 Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations...
...cope with this, where there are low readings, the operation is postponed until by rest and the use of digitalis the patient's vasotone is raised beyond the danger point. When the readings are low, but immediate surgery is imperative the surgeon must expect trouble, employ speed, spare trauma and select the less severe operative procedure, such as draining an organ rather than removing...
...moment think at all. Leaving aside the question, now I am afraid finally settled (you know which way) in England, as to whether I think at all so as you would notice it, my answer is that you don't give a fellow time for such spare time pursuits as thought. He gets off a boat and is met by a hospitable American who once had a drink with him perhaps. The hospitable American takes him to a party where he meets about thirty more H. A.'s. They find out where he is staying (if he has found...
Mildly eccentric. Publisher Mitchell built his own home on Rhode Island Avenue by working on Sundays and in his spare time. He also constructed a small fiddle, played on it with a homemade bow. In addition, Mr. Mitchell got to be something of an amateur magician. Last week it was revealed that in future Publisher Mitchell will have all the time he wishes to devote to architecture, music and prestidigitation. Control of his magazine was shifted to an editorial group who planned to prod Pathfinder along a new journalistic trail...
Plump, brown-eyed, little Mrs. Omlie is 33. In 1918 she was a St. Paul high-school girl who spent every spare moment at the airport, eventually bought a Curtiss JN4D ("Jenny"). A onetime Army officer named Vernon C. Omlie taught her to fly it. Year later, after he had also taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted...