Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Subscriber Kramer again travels TIME'S circulation department will be glad to spare her caretaker trouble...
Arnoldo Lindi (see above) was once a breaker boy in a Swedish iron mine; he ran away, shipped before the mast, landed in Boston. There he moved furniture, went in for pugilism, sang in his spare lime with a Swedish choral society. True to tradition a rich man heard him, sent him abroad for a musical education, where he has since had successful engagements. Last week he had his Chicago debut...
...some statistics have been helpful in a great many ways, but one of the faults of this day and age is that of carrying things to excess. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the field of statistics. All one needs to discover something of value is plenty of spare time and a Saturday pencil. This may explain the appearance of so many neat columns of figures nestling in the pages of newspapers and other periodicals, but that is about as far as most of the explanations carry. The not result of all the compilations additions divisions and applications...
...group of first-year men, however, we have not been able to get in touch with to any great extent. These are the "commuters", the men who do not live in the college dormitories. Either these men do not want advice or they have no spare minutes to see their advisors, for they have all been written to, many of them several times, and yet have not responded by letter or in person...
...freshmen whose parents had considered that their young would make more of a land university after literally seeing the world. Full credit for courses passed awaited the voyagers when they should return to stationary education. Instead of frivolous weekends in large U. S. cities, they would have spent their spare time in trips ashore, under watchful and instructive supervision, to foreign banks, temples, schools, playgrounds, parliaments. All along their course, ministries of education waited to show them courtesies...