Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the average German thinks of the average Englishman he does not think of Mr. Baldwin in the very least. Still less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass, and gripping a short but aggressive pipe in an enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever...
...course of his researches, Dr. Carrel developed a method of transplanting an organ from one body to another. As a result of his work a man with a damaged kidney can in some cases today get it replaced with a healthy kidney from another man willing to spare the organ. But Dr. Carrel's plans of keeping whole hearts, kidneys, ovaries and other organs alive artificially were at a standstill in 1928 when Mechanic Lindbergh became his assistant. The technique was known and the nutrient fluids were at hand. But still lacking was a germ-proof device to pump...
...McDowell entered the operating room, threw his hat, cane and coat on a chair, rolled up his sleeves, prayed: "Direct me, Oh God, in performing this operation for I am but an instrument in Thy hands and am but Thy servant. If it is Thy will, spare this afflicted woman...
...husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband saw it: at night, in bed, she helped him play with dolls, in the daytime at soldiers. Because she had to do something with her spare time, and because she was ambitious, she read hard, got herself an education. Catherine's only use was as brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband would not or could not serve her, the breeders did not much care who did. When she foaled her first...
...Hermitage Museum (TIME, March 4). "The Hermitage," drawled Lord Duveen last week, "is no longer a great collection. It has gone to pieces because of Mellon's purchases." This was poppycock, in the opinion of most critics, who believe that the Hermitage was able easily to spare Mellon's $3,247,695 worth with the sole exception of the Perugino, which cost the least...