Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Experimental Evolution at Washington, Captain in aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director of the American Birth Control League, President of the International Neo-Malthusian League. In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities and acquired characteristics. He is Clarence Cook Little, President of the University of Michigan since 1925. One expects such a man to keep on doing the unexpected. Last week he did it again, announced plans for a new uni versity beside...
...degree, but taking the whole thing by and large Denver rather than the publishers is responsible for the Denver Post. Denver apparently since the gold rush days, has liked its meat raw. . . . Many harsh things have been said about Bonfils and Tammen. Maybe TIME is broad enough and can spare the space to print the estimate of one man who through many years of association believes he got to know the real Bonfils and Tammen. I refer to a letter I wrote to Bonfils when Tammen died in 1924. It follows: "Ever since early this morning when the wires...
...Major Symphony, Skryabin's Divine Poem, Debussy's Nuages & Fetes and Brahm's Academic Festival Overture. Manhattan, long appreciative of Pianist Gabrilowitsch, found Conductor Gabrilowitsch just as much to her liking, said so in her applause and in her press criticisms. Would Detroit spare...
...Christmas that year. He was far from home and had been so busy with his Field Artillery, which he organized and shepherded through the St. Mihiel offensive, the Meuse and the Argonne, that social duties slipped his mind. Probably there was no book of etiquette at hand in his spare military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed a notable present, different from anyone's else; intrinsically rare...
...back of it all was Vladimir Rosing, who five years ago was no more than a good tenor. He was returning then to Europe after engagements in the U. S. and in the crossing he met George Eastman, rich kodakman of Rochester, N. Y. There were many hours to spare aboard ship. Mr. Eastman's hobby was music and Tenor Rosing had time to talk of his ideal to produce opera for English-speaking audiences in their own language. Mr. Eastman listened well, tucked it all away in the corner of his mind. That summer Tenor Rosing received...