Word: spares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holmes had vowed to write a book before he reached 40 and fulfilled the promise with several weeks to spare. The exhibit contains an autographed, first edition copy of The Common Law, the book which earned him a Law School professorship. A collection of lectures originally delivered at Boston's Lowell Institute in 1880. The Common Law is now a classic legal text which contains the famous dictum. "The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience...
Steve Dagdigian tallied the Crimson's ninth, and spare forward Wiz Wyatt nabbed his first goal of the year at 13:56. For the record, David Gray, Dan O'Driscoll and Christ Valentine had Clarkson's final three goals...
...1960s to export arms when political considerations prevented the government from doing so itself, is now a specialist in Middle East weapons requirements. Another freelance supplier, California's Michael Kokin, boasts that his company can "clothe a naked army, put it in the field and provide spare parts for its weapons...
...when he was living in the provincial city of Ryazan after having endured eleven years in prison, concentration camps and exile and a bout of cancer. A high school math teacher, Solzhenitsyn even by then had become the archetypal "underground man" of Russian letters. Writing secretly in every spare moment, he had already completed his novels on the forbidden theme of Stalinist prisons and camps, The First Circle and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Fearful that his dangerous activity might be discovered by nosy friends and colleagues and his work confiscated, he cultivated the reputation of being...
Sherce is good at changing tires. She picks a nail out of the old one, for us to look at, and heaves the spare into place. She even talks to the man who'd been following us. Henshaw--an army veteran until his friend in the car up the road gets impatient...