Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Could you spare a dime...
...Conant scheme for studying history in one's spare time has breathed fire and fury into history for history's sake. Puttering about the uttermost parts of the University last week-end we stumbled on a scene that made our heart leap up to behold the prophetic power of the President's plan. For in one of the scientific research labs on the other side of the River--the kind of place one never goes to but which makes the University famous--we took part in a tingling drama in American historical development...
...leaves her little time for play. Gone are the days when she could go skiing in her native Norway, and, though she takes good care of herself, she is losing the figure that once made her look like a Valkyrie as well as sing like one. She spends what spare time she has playing twelve kinds of solitaire in her Manhattan hotel apartment, window-shopping with her 19-year-old stepdaughter Anna, who is studying interior decoration. Flagstad's husband, a wealthy Norse lumberman named Henry Johansen, joined them in Manhattan last month...
...about their daily tasks. After breakfast 70-year-old Mr. Borden walked down town to do some business errands. Bridget, her first chores done, went up to her room to lie down. Mrs. Borden, 64 and fat, puffed up the front stairs to change the pillow slips in the spare room. That left only Stepdaughter Lizzie, a spinster of 32, unaccounted...
...killed him!" Mr. Borden was still lying on the sofa, his face and head a mask of blood. He had been hacked to death with some sharp, heavy instrument. His body was still warm, the blood was still flowing. Neighbors came running, the house was searched; in the spare room they found the body of Mrs. Borden lying on the floor, hacked to death in the same manner. She had apparently been killed an hour or so earlier...