Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with every tank brimming with gasoline, while the new boat will have a range of 2,600 mi. Incidentally, this is the greatest range ever embodied in any airplane. True, Macready and Kelly flew 2,600 mi. non-stop across the Continent and still had gas to spare in their Fokker monoplane. But their ship was stripped bare. The new seaplane, when making a single hop from San Diego to Honolulu, will carry not just gas, but a full crew of five men and powerful fighting and bombing equipment...
Army and Williams should beat Columbia and Amherst, respectively, with something to spare. Columbia is, however, apparently getting back into its stride and may be troublesome. If Clement is unable to play, Williams may be pressed hard to win, but on paper the conquerors of Cornell have a distinct edge...
Twenty-five dollars a pint is the market price for fresh, clean human blood, which is sold by physicians and surgeons and used to replenish the blood supply of patients who have lost a good deal of the fluid during operations or through sickness. A human being can safely spare a pint out of the eight quarts of blood in his body once in six months, according to the doctor in charge at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Some men have been known to supply as much as two quarts during the six month period, but the doctor did not recommend...
Whatever the reasons, Mr. Dyar's example may prove of value to everyone. Even the college undergraduate, weary of intellectual work which seems unending, may turn to an humbler and a purer diversion in his spare time by assisting the workmen in the Yard. In which case it may be proved that the person who last spring lighted the fire in Massachusetts Hall was neither a criminal nor a lunatic, but a philanthropic psychologist of unusually far and reaching vision...
...flight was popular because it was so purely an American gesture. Things were done in a big way--ships stationed every hundred miles on the ocean, spare engine parts sent all over the world, and when the fliers got back home, landing fields banked with flowers, and covered with huge, gasping crowds. It was a triumphant national boast, flung in the face of the world; and like every really good boast, it contained a certain element of futility...