Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From then on the Engineers and New Jersey boats began to wobble and lose ground rapidly. Tech put it up to 32 at the mile and Rutgers soon afterwards to 35, but Chace had it steadied at 30 with a length and a half of open water to spare...
...Franklin D. Jr., Son No. 3, continued studying at the University of Virginia Law School, passing spare time with his wife, Ethel du Pont Roosevelt...
Edwin L. Rice, 57, president of Rice Manufacturing and Aerial Transport Co. of Silver Spring, Md., has for 20 years devoted his spare time to submitting ideas to the U. S. Navy. Last week when the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, in its fourth week of hearings on Franklin Roosevelt's bill to spend $1,500,000,000, enlarging the U. S. Navy, was considering a provision to provide $15,000,000 "for development of ideas on national defense," Mr. Rice hastened to contribute. His idea: A canal across the U. S. to enable one navy to defend both coasts...
...Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands out like a three-alarm fire in dim-lit, sleepy Coyoacán as floodlights blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired Mrs. Trotsky goes about her housework packing a Webley .25. Ironically, the immediate benefits of these safeguards for Trotsky, the foe of private property, have...
Henry Clay French was an orphan who got a job as callboy on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad in Kansas City back in 1873. Learning telegraphy in his spare time, he was a full-fledged operator at 14, a combined telegrapher and brakeman on the Santa Fe three years later. For the next 50 years he was shunted from line to line like a boxcar in a busy season. He saw hard living in Kansas cow towns, hard drinking at Northwest division points, hard work everywhere. Last week his son, a brakeman himself, offered Harry French's biography...