Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time. As a Senior, he will probably feel constrained to take two advanced chemistry courses, or perhaps even do research work. In such a case, his laboratory hours are indefinitely long. Thus, throughout most of his college career he spends all of his afternoons, and most of his spare morning hours in Mallinckrodt. This does not mean that his evenings are free, for then he must study chemistry...
...them listed himself as interested in taking 25 courses, next year mostly in the fields of History, Government and Economics. His spare time, he said, would be spent in "browsing through the library...
...year-old Hindemith has had wide experience as a practical musician, is a virtuoso on the viola. After running away from home at the age of eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...which captured Teruel, was the first major victory of the new People's Army. In canceling that victory last week General Franco did not himself win a major victory. For the expenditure of two months' time many lives and much materiel- none of which he could well spare-all he had to show was a wider Teruel salient (now containing 2,500 square miles against 2,125 square miles three months...
Bessie married a chemist named Michael Berliney, but in professional connections preferred to be known as "Mrs. Pastor." The couple moved to Perth Amboy, N. J., where "Mike" had a laboratory. With skilled, indefatigable hands Mrs. Pastor kept house for her husband, spent her spare time in his workshop, composing synthetic waxes, lotions and soaps. Today she has taken out 18 patents, has sold some of them to cosmetic and soap makers. Not to be outdone, Mike has taken out 174 patents...