Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rather easily explained is the institution of a series of lectures on clothes and personal appearance at Wellesley. A consultant on dress and personal appearance is scheduled for a week's stay on the campus, during which time she will deliver four lectures, hold 17 conferences, and, in her spare time, receive those who crave a private interview...
Streamlining has apparently reached its limit for conventional, long-hooded cars. Full advantage has been taken of the possibilities for additional room provided by moving motors ahead over the front axle. Disc or steel artillery wheels are now almost universal. Spare tires have followed trunks into built-in compartments. Hydraulic brakes have largely superseded mechanical brakes. Overdrive or fourth speeds for use above 40 m.p.h. are optional or standard equipment on many makes. Some form of independent front-wheel suspension is available on about half the lines. Superchargers are still a specialty but automatic chokes are popular. Prices were...
...Lawrence County, N. Y. jail. Sheriff McCormack, unable to exterminate the jail's hordes of cockroaches, offered convicts 10? bounty per 100 roaches turned in. With nothing else to occupy their spare time, convicts delivered thousands...
...shop in Paris just before the War. Commissions being slow, he turned to painting and writing essays for art magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints in his spare time and which he has never tried to sell. Not until after the Arts Decoratifs Exposition of 1925 did he gain an international reputation as a builder. By that time many a young architect was working on the problem of stripping the petticoat from architecture and making honest use of modern materials...
...legation at Addis Ababa, warned Rome that because of the number of foreigners at Dire Dawa and Addis Ababa, any attempt to cut the railroad to Djibouti and the outside world would be considered an unfriendly act. Heeding all this, Italy last week was reported to have offered to spare the railroad if Emperor Haile Selassie would remove all troops and munitions from Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The King of Kings was supposed to have turned down this proposal on the ground that he needed his troops in those two towns to protect foreigners from his civilian subjects. Next...