Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself up the second time, Farmer Perry announced with evident satisfaction: "I didn't hit as hard as if I hadn't had the wings." But he turned to less violent experiments. From hangar to hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I. last week trudged Farmer Perry, a spare, spectacled figure in grey cap and overcoat, with a bulky bundle under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed...
Exactly opposite is the tone of the Irwin Plan. The viceroy, a kindly Englishman, gives reign to his emotions, urges that "we spare no efforts and even take some risks," admits that "it would be a grave mistake to underestimate [the] force or depreciate [the] value" of St. Gandhi's movement, concludes, "[I] have endeavored to point the way to ... place upon the constitution the first definite impress of Dominion status...
...responsible for the fact that there are only about one and three-quarters wild ducks left for every U. S. citizen. Inspired by the British system whereby game birds have increased 900% since the War, Mr. Knapp has formulated a plan for farmers to raise wild fowl, use their spare lands for feeding places, collect from hunters who come to their farms to shoot. Each bird will be banded, may be marketed. The selling of hunted wild fowl is now prohibited by all the States...
...commuting trains he appeased something that was gnawing within him by writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That same year he married Grace Livingstone Hegger, wandered with her from coast to coast, getting newspaper jobs and writing novels in his spare time. During this period he published The Trail of the Hawk, The Job, The Innocents, Free Air. Then he borrowed $500 from his father, retired from other work to a lodging house in Washington, D. C. and wrote Main Street (1920). Its success was immediate; the title phrase and Sinclair...
...finer sense, should include and encourage as many diversified subjects as its students will support. That militarism is not academic is true but neither is publishing a daily news paper for amusement and financial profit. If you are to be consistent in your ideals, then spend your spare time in Widener Library and the Museums...