Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet; this last mark which he set at Bowdoin College is the college record. His improvement was also marked in his ability to stay in the circle with two or three turns. I have often seen him take three turns and still have from 12 to 18 inches to spare from the front of the circle...
...first administrative year will end on the coming June 30. What the Fund needs before that time is a large increase of relatively small subscribers. No man should be prevented from giving because he feels that he can spare only a small sum. One dollar from a man who can afford no more is just as welcome as $100 from a man who can afford that. The first principle of the Harvard Fund is that all Harvard alumni shall have a share...
...building or a scholarship fund or a research fund does not add a cent for these purposes. The situation of the university treasurer thus often approaches that of a man with an automobile whose engine constantly calls for repairs, but who is overwhelmed with Christmas presents of spare tires, wire wheels, speedometers, and fancy headlights. All these presents are delightful, but they do not help the car to climb hills! Or it reminds one of the situation of the dean of a cathedral who receives plenty of money for memorial chapels and stained-glass windows, but is hard...
...fingers would bend until they lay flat on the back of her hand. She had two marmosets which she fondled like children, and indeed they bore a noticeable resemblance to her; they would sit in her lap, gazing with sad eyes into her underslung face. She spent her spare time crocheting, but she read widely and spoke four* languages. Cultivated people were astonished when they talked with...
This year marks a radical departure from the Pudding's post-war tradition. The action takes place in Cambridge, Mass, during the American struggle for independence. Instead of football games, the undergraduates spend their spare time fighting the revolutionary war on our own campus. You feel that if you wandered very far from the Yard, you would begin to hear the booming of British guns. Wonder of wonders, there is a very real plot, involving a spy, and a beautiful woman suspected of being a spy, and an undergraduate who has fall-on in love with an actress (proving that...