Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew King Frederick VI. This friend persuaded the monarch to send him to school. He was very backward in his classes. He graduated, wrote dramas which were never played, books which were never published, until a novel, The Improvisatore, brought him suddenly to fame. In his spare moments he had written a few fairy tales, idle things for which he had no regard. He wanted to be a dramatist. He traveled through Europe; after his triumphant visit to England, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked for more fairy stories...
...right that American newspapers should often remember what Lafayette did for America, but should it not be well also to remember that Lafayette could come because the help of his Spanish allies made it possible to spare him at the time...
...testimony of a number of construction experts advanced the opinion that the Shenandoah was lost largely because one of her six engines, (a spare) had been removed to make room for additional radio equipment. It was contended that if this had not been done she could have escaped from the storm...
...Polo could support itself with plenty to spare, with a field and grandstands for its use near the University," asserted Captain S. F. Clark, University polo coach, to the CRIMSON last night. "The sport is attractive enough to the public, and has become so popular that it would undoubtedly become a self-supporting organization...
...Pittsburgh Chancellor John G. Bowman led off last week with a talk on Spare Moments. Dr. A. G. Worthing explained the Nature of Electricity, or as much of it as he could. Lectures in the offing deal with Radium, X-rays, Structure of the Atom, Relativity-topics which will doubtless supply timely and needed information to the farmers...