Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them went bankrupt. The guns sent from the practice camps in some cases became separated from their instruments. Further, they were sent into action without overhaul. Some predictors were out of order. Electric storage batteries were in some cases run down, although other units at the same time had spare batteries and charging plants. Certain units did not draw their full complement of stores and some stores were found to be deficient...
...haven for the threatened stocks of scientifically useful animals and plants from all nations. Perhaps it should be as far as possible from a seacoast and remote from the danger of air attacks. Perhaps it should be near that hole in the ground in Kentucky where we keep our spare gold...
...value to the Japanese. Factories were set ablaze, the luxurious Japanese Naval Club, the Japanese Consulate and Consul General's residence were blasted to the ground. Scores of Chinese, trapped in the dynamited areas, were killed. Reservoirs were demolished but Father Jacquinot reportedly persuaded the Chinese to spare the Hankow pumping station...
...Buffalo's swank Trinity Church until St. George's called him. In Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase-coiner, Rector McKee calls Rainsford House a "clinical laboratory." declares he hopes to attract the "best leadership" arriving in Manhattan every year, to provide it with channels for "significant service...
...Manhattan Frederick Redefer's headquarters are off Riverside Drive in a four-story brownstone building, filled with books and Progressive pupils' paintings (visible behind him on TIME'S cover). In his spare time he goes to parties, skis, plays tennis, sometimes rises at 6 a. m. to go figure-skating...