Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans they are expressly enjoined from "pulling hair, striking, knocking down and pinching." Nevertheless, in three widely separated quarters of the nation last week, three teachers who had failed to spare the rod to recalcitrant students were upheld by the law or their superiors...
...night work is required. The various jobs assigned to the candidates may easily be performed in the spare time during the day. The work consists mainly in obtaining advertising collecting bills, merchandising, and general office work. Plenty of opportunity is offered to get practice in dictating letters, and in other such things which will undoubtedly be invaluable to those who intend entering business...
...Presently Senator Borah himself said he was not sure whether he would enter. Meanwhile Borah supporters, including many Johnson men, applied for the necessary papers, circulated nominating petitions, set to work on a slate of delegates. Not until the last day did Senator Borah decide. That he could not spare two weeks to stump California was the reason he gave for not filing. Perhaps a shortage of campaign money helped him make up his mind, and he may have listened to advisers who told him that if he entered in California he might only split the anti-Hoover vote...
...stability. Muscles have had violence done to their origins and insertions and have suffered enormous inequalities in the distribution of labor. Viscera have been pushed about hither and yon, hitched up, let down, reversed and inverted. In making a new machine out of an old one, plenty of spare parts have been left to rattle around inside. There are no few evidences of ungifted, amateur tinkering...
Unlike surly, monosyllabic Joe Louis, John Henry Lewis is an affable, talkative young black who spends his spare time shooting pool or picking out popular tunes on a piano, prefers Y.M.C.A.'s to hotels, and, as a souvenir of an adolescence spent in the roughest company in the toughest mining towns of the Southwest, has apparently acquired no more vicious taste than a fondness for vanilla milkshakes. After last week's fight, his first in defense of the title he won from Bob Olin last autumn, Lewis refreshed himself at a soda fountain, retired to his training camp...