Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Konow to follow suit, Skipper Shields broke out a long-tailed Genoa jib and under it his boat outfooted Norna all the way around a windward and leeward course. Next day, in a light breeze that favored the defender, she won again, this time with four minutes to spare. The last race of the series was sailed on one of those muggy, misty afternoons when a cat's-paw, brushing the surface of the Sound, was visible for half a mile. Skipper Shields, better acquainted with the waters, handling a boat whose underwater design gave her as much advantage...
...trade occurred in Argentina, where drought and locusts cut the prospective harvest nearly 50%. In good Latin American tradition the crop was officially overestimated early in the season, causing no end of embarrassment to Buenos Aires exporting firms which sold for future delivery more grain than the country can spare. Argentina still has wheat from last year's crop but, after supplying nations like Brazil and Colombia, there will be little new crop wheat left for Europe. Meantime what was expected to be the second largest European harvest in modern history turned out miserably. In Hungary there is even talk...
...fight for the spare fullback berth may center around Fitzwilliam Sargent and Richard Powell '38. Holcombe should hold down the other position...
...administrator of Groton's million dollar endowment fund, Dr. Peabody, should write his distinguished pupil, Franklin Roosevelt, for some ERA money. If he were granted an income of $500, he might spare some of his boys the humiliation which they experience when they are unable to contribute towards Student Council scholarships, class expenses, and PBH charity work...
...here to tell the tale. Well, take Emerson, or James or even Waiter Lippmann; say, there's President Roosevelt himself--they've done it. We can do it. Yes, work--but you can't stop a man who wants a thing badly enough. And there'll be time to spare: for the theatre, for opera, for Brattles, for football yes, and Wellesley too. A man must be well-rounded. Opportunity knocks here; freedom rings. Harvard is the world's greatest University...