Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Underdog Kainrath, Chicago team captain and a violinist in his spare time, did not let his townsmen down. With grim determination, he made the bantamweight match the most exciting of the evening. Ducking Sergo's wild swings and peppering him with well-timed punches and counterpunches, Chicago's Kainrath clearly won all three rounds...
...Spare, sandy-haired Major Gerald Constable Maxwell's paternal grandfather was William Maxwell, 10th Baron Herries; his maternal grandfather was Simon Fraser, 14th Baron Lovat. He was not the first of the English families of the Maxwells and the Frasers to distinguish himself in war (he shot down 30 German planes, for which he was amply decorated), but certainly no Maxwell or Fraser before him had so distinguished himself in business. After the War, Mr. Maxwell acquired the Chrysler agency in London, sold so many Chryslers that he was able to sell the agency for a considerable sum. Having...
...Orange, before even reaching the Connecticut River, Joseph E. Upson, Austin Teaching Fellow in Geology, got a puncture and substituted an adequate spare. In Old Hadley, the second tire blew out, but Charles S. Denny, assistant in Geology came to the rescue...
Ervin Elzie Joy, 28, of Vancouver, Wash., operates a railroad drawbridge. In his spare time he is an Unlicensed air pilot and builds planes. After five years of patient tinkering, Inventor Joy produced a 28-foot, wingless, flat fuselage shaped like an attenuated sting ray, which he called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared...
...might have saved the life of his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, who died of pneumonia in March after 22 weeks' illness. Schlag, who could not afford to send her to a hospital, designed the Jefferson nickel in such time as he could spare from nursing...