Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight last week the S. S. Aquitania put out from New York carrying three oldsters tucked away securely in three of her best bunks. The gentlemen were London-bound with no time to spare, for they were the U. S. delegates to the 1935 Naval Limitation Conference opening Dec. 9. Only fortnight ago President Roosevelt appointed them. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, chief of the delegation, was named to go because attending conferences is his job. Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of Naval Operations, went along because it was Navy business. Undersecretary of State William Phillips was selected because...
...janitor in one of the houses recalls the days when he used to keep spare mattresses in the basement corridors to use as cots for those temporarily incapacitated during house dances. It will be noticed that the mattresses are no longer in use, nor have they been for some years. This would indicate that the situation has improved. Should any extra-heavy boot be used to boost John over, the fence when he is already being ushered ceremoniously, if slowly, out of the yard gate? Guy Garland...
...thirty years ago for a student to find suitable and sufficiently remunerative employment. Furthermore, academic standards have been raised, requirements have been stiffened, and the total length of the educational process has been increased by the great development of the graduate schools. Such time as he can spare from study had better be spent in the society of fellow students and tutors, or in reasonable recreation...
...during his New York City visit remained a deep secret to Secret Service and police. ¶The same day that the President had his heavily-guarded ride, Mrs. Roosevelt, swinging down Manhattan's Madison Avenue afoot, stopped into the hat shop of Lilly Dache. With ten minutes to spare before keeping an appointment, she tried on four hats, bought two. Said the sales-clerk who knew Mrs. Roosevelt of old: "She is one that either likes a thing or she doesn't. But she has improved in style a lot in the last few years...
That was too heretical for even old Professor Fisher, who is a stanch advocate of the commodity ("rubber") dollar. To please his patron, Yaleman Garland revalued the patent at $5,000,000. Automatic Signal prospered modestly, is still a going concern. Still board chairman is spare, white-goateed Professor Irving Fisher. Yaleman Garland withdrew into the mysteries of his 30 new corporations...