Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boners. Example: playing Mozart on the gramophone for a friend. Odets remarked: "Mozart was a young genius, too." Odets no longer has the same interest in gadding about, hooking up with celebrities, asserting his importance. Today most of his close friends are members of the Group. Most of his spare time is spent at home-playing the gramophone. His love for music is ebullient, a little showy. "A good composer was lost," he once said, "when I took up writing...
...banks, the banks asked Go-Getter Ben Katz if he could put the firm back on its feet. Substituting Gruen debentures and preferred stock for the bank loans, he thought he could do it in ten years. Last week he appeared to have done it with seven years to spare...
Although he had never drawn anything but graphs before, Clark's tale is charmingly and cleverly illustrated. He did all his own printing too, and he did it in two months "just in my spare time...
...about a choice of career. Because of the complexities of a vocational decision as well as its importance toward a productive and happy life, it requires, not merely a snap judgment in the senior year when the student has other worries and problems besetting him, but recurrent consideration on spare Sunday afternoons and off evenings throughout all the college years. Yet most students are prone to procrastinate on such matters unless impelled by objective and sympathetic advice such as the Placement Office can give them. In a general way the Office can guide the student in an analysis...
Autry's revolutionary contribution to westerns was a soft, sleepy-sounding baritone voice. A onetime telegrapher for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, who had used his ample spare time in learning to sing and strum the guitar, Autry had later become a crooner of plains ballads for smalltime radio stations. When Republic decided to try to save westerns with the experiment of a singing cowboy, he was selected for the spot and succeeded instantly...