Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decades ago was outspoken in his criticism of the attitude taken by college toward ball clubs who send players through school and then sign them up. A second peeve was intercollegiate restriction of undergraduates participating in semi-pro games during the summer and "maybe picking up a little spare cash...
...football teams. Two years ago Bucknell, which, like every other college, craves a money raiser as its president, made a remarkable capture. As acting president it acquired slim, square-jawed Arnaud Cartwright Marts, a graduate of Oberlin College. Arnaud Marts had raised $1,000,000 for Bucknell in his spare time. All told he had pried from philanthropists no less than $200,000,000 for colleges, hospitals, religious institutions...
...last fall Arnaud Marts told the college he could no longer spare the time to be its president because he had to attend to his business as president of Marts & Lundy, Inc. of Manhattan, financial counselors for philanthropic organizations. Bucknell was appalled. Its students and faculty quickly signed a petition and the trustees unanimously begged him to stay. "We would rather have you as our leader at Bucknell only one day a week," wrote the trustees, "than anyone else we know for seven days a week...
...James Todd, chairman of Northwestern's department of sociology and anthropology, whose personal pastimes are painting and badminton. This week he published a 176-page report on commercial recreation, the most exhaustive study ever made in the U. S. of what people do clandestinely and publicly with their spare time...
Written in a spare, economical prose, Ship of the Line contains such lucid explanations of naval maneuvers that before they have finished its readers may feel they could sail a frigate themselves...