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Word: sparely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern cost accounting system in the President's dairy, prepare a chart showing whether occasional experiments in the President's forest preserves could be made a continuous activity giving steady employment. Son James felt sure his insurance business would continue to prosper under the attentions he could spare from his agricultural duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...White South Africans are faced with as many blacks as they can possibly handle now. In case of a serious native uprising in Southwest Africa, the Union of South Africa dares not spare the troops from its own vast territories to cope with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mandates to Germany? | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Charles Rudolph Walgreen runs the largest chain of drug stores in the U. S. and prizes the few hours a day he can spare with his family. Each morning in the ivory-colored dining room of his Chicago apartment, overlooking Lake Michigan and the South Shore Country Club, short, bald Drugman Walgreen and his wife take breakfast together. Before Daughter Ruth and Son Charles Jr. were married, they, too, turned up for breakfast. The Walgreens are given to talking much over their eggs. But since Mrs. Walgreen's niece Lucille Norton graduated from a Seattle high school and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago & Communism | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

This is one of the very few times that Leesburg has been the center of news of nation-wide interest-can't you spare us a line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...affected by the insanity of inflation. She stole books, sold them, began to slip towards the maelstrom of Berlin's delirious night life. What saved her was the Youth Movement. Into this earnestly idealistic confraternity Lilo Linke threw herself with desperate fervor, gave all her interest and every spare moment to its passionately serious meetings, its Spartan week-end jaunts. Her ambition and ability soon made her a leader, and at a national gathering her girls' group was judged the best in Germany. But even Youth Movements grow up. Leader Linke fell in love with a handsome fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Finishing School | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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