Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week before NRA. Now his hours have been cut and he is making only $12 and can't make ends meet. ... It is impossible for the boy to go on like he is. ... It is true he works less hours, but what can he do with his spare time? All he can do is sit around and brood about not being able to make a living for his wife and baby...
Scientist Albert Einstein who spends his spare time fiddling, received a letter from one Sigismund Alexander, jobless Jewish violinist, asking help. Professor Einstein replied: "I live a very, very quiet life here in Princeton and could not help you directly to find job. But your letter was very interesting to me-so much so that I promise herewith to write an autographic letter of thanks to anyone who gives you a job for at least a month...
Francis J. Lane '36, who has been filling the spare defense position on the hockey team this winter, will no longer be available, it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association. Lane, a football and track letterman was withdrawn from college because of scholastic difficulties...
...Celtics for eight years, during which they won an average of 120 out of 130 games a year, never lost a series, finally broke up for lack of opponents. Softspoken, sleek-haired, he coaches smooth and deceptive team play, foxy shifts from man-to-man to zone defenses. In spare time he studies sculpture, has made three figures. Says he: "I mold my players just like I mold my clay." East. In 1908 Harvard quit the Eastern Intercollegiate League in a huff. This season it returned, and so far has lost every conference game played. Princeton, an early favorite, slumped...
...Conant lore. The President, it seems, has been somewhat nostalgic for test tubes and the small of chlorophyll. The new job didn't offer the opportunities for diversion that the old one did. But Mrs. Conant solved the problem. The President has taken up painting to while away his spare moments...