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Word: sparely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago he called Franklin Roosevelt a heaven-sent gift to the U. S. people. Last week he announced that he "could not spare the time" to run for President himself, graciously endorsed Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas as the second best choice. Observers, quick to see the hand of Publisher William Randolph Hearst behind the move, thought the probable split in California's Republican ranks would be more than Governor Merriam bargained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Merriam Merger | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Soviet Russia's contribution to the problem of what to do with the world's spare Jews is to transplant them to virgin soil in the Soviet Republic of Biro-Bidjan, insulating the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. In the event of Russo-Japanese hostilities Biro-Bidjan will be "the Jewish Belgium," and smart Bolsheviks count on world publicity for "Japanese Atrocities" in Biro-Bidjan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Biro-Bidjan | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Investigation revealed that they will not find the blue coats unprepared, however. It is reported that police will spare no efforts to nip the demonstration in the bud, and thus avoid any disturbance. Reached at his home at a late hour last night, Inspector Goulston of the Red Squad declined to comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS WILL PICKET WITH GARMENT WORKERS | 3/17/1936 | See Source »

...logical, however, that if the plant be functioning at its maximum efficiency, and there be teams and coaches in as many sports as possible, Harvard would stand a better chance of producing more well-grounded healthy men. To the man who wants to spend all of his spare hours in Widener or Mallinckrodt the ten dollar levy would indubitably be a hardship; but the sacrifice of this small minority seems the least possible one for the good of the whole. Beef athletes are no more desired in predominance than brain athletes. Harvard points to the well rounded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS FOR ALL | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...like many other boys of my age ... I was much puzzled over the phenomena of sex. ... I determined that I would make it the main business of my life to get to the real natural facts of sex apart from all would-be moralistic or sentimental notions, and so spare the youth of future generations the trouble and the perplexity which this ignorance had caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Studies for All | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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