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Word: sparely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must now "conform as closely as possible with the organization visualized for war." Effect of this is that, in case of emergency, operations will at once be directed not by civilian officials in Whitehall but by four British air marshals, charged respectively with bombers, fighters, coast-defense planes and spare or training ships. Since offense is now considered the only real defense against a major air raid on a great metropolis like London, the duty of Britain's bombers under rough & ready Air Marshal Sir John Miles Steel is presumably to get aloft as fast as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tattoo | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...hour summation for the defense, attacking the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses, declaring that strumpets had been taken on wild parties by the state in order to induce them to testify. Mr. Dewey contented himself with a seven-hour answer. Urging the jury not to spare Lucania, he declared: "Unless you are willing to convict the top man you might as well acquit everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old-Fashioned Justice | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Jimmy was glad to see the Childses, delighted at the idea of being put into a book. In spare moments from his sheepherding, he spun them the yarn of his adventures. When Jimmy came to Patagonia, in 1892, it had been an even wilder land. In Tierra del Fuego, where he went first as a herder, the Indians were being hunted and killed like wild animals. Naked Indian women were kept tethered outside the herders' tents until their pregnancy made them a nuisance. There was little law but the gauchos' own. Jimmy liked the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Case | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...with Scripps-Howard nine years ago on the Baltimore Post. By 1934 he was managing editor, and when the Post was sold to William Randolph Hearst, the Cleveland Press soon found room for Clayton Fritchey. Thirty-one, ruddy of face, blue of eye, Reporter Fritchey has recently used his spare time to improve his tennis, write a dramatization of Lion Feuchtwanger's novel The Oppermanns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Graveyard Scoop | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight, 50,000 Dubliners marched behind his coffin. After his hero's death, Edmund Leamy stayed manfully by his post, writing away for United Ireland, but his heart was no longer in it. When he could spare the time, he wrote fairy tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Leader | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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