Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please spare us the ordeal of having to gaze again soon upon Mao Tse-tung or Stalin on the cover of your fine magazine
Yates's mother, Elizabeth Brunton Yates, was Dickens' favorite actress. Yates, who was born in 1831, was a clerk in the General Post Office when he turned to spare time journalism in 1852. He wrote for Chambers' Journal, the Daily News and Dickens' Household Words, meanwhile trying to persuade London newspapers to let him do a gossip column for them. In 1855 a new paper called the Illustrated Times let him try this new experiment in journalism. It was so successful that within three years Yates was invited to edit a new paper, Town Talk...
Today, when 74-year-old Dr. Luce is not actually treating patients, he serves as school doctor, trustee of the local library, and member of the local board of health. In his spare time, he attends postgraduate courses and pursues a favorite hobby-writing for the district medical paper which he edited last year. Between times he follows research on diabetes, from which he himself has suffered since he served as a captain in World...
...artist, 27-year-old Denis Williams, was no loincloth primitive. The son of a textile manufacturer, he had gone to high school in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, worked as a postal clerk. Five years ago some of his spare-time paintings caught the eye of a British Council representative, won him an art scholarship in England...
...church cost $225,000 to build. Finishing touches such as paint and minor carpentry work will be done by Lutheran students and other volunteers in their spare time...