Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchant marine of the air. By agreement with domestic transport operators it stays outside the U. S. proper while they stay in. Pan American goes where foreign trade is, or where it can be developed. It carries the sample case, the estimate pad, the order book, the spare part. It gets heavy patronage from U. S. merchants in Brazil and Argentina, where Germany and France formerly enjoyed an enormous advantage by virtue of their seven-day shipments of merchandise and documents from Berlin and Paris, a schedule now equalled by P. A. A. planes to New York...
...gave up his job with the Parker Fountain Pen Co. in Janesville, Wis. to go to Washington as a clerk in the Treasury Department. In his spare time he learned shorthand, Spanish, the law. In 1916 he emerged from bureaucratic anonymity as assistant secretary of the Fine Arts Commission. A year later he took on a position as first secretary of the Public Building Commission...
...that time my husband and mother-in-law were reading the _______and _________ respectively. Of course many arguments ensued, in which we each tried to prove the newsworthiness of our choice. As the weeks passed I found it increasingly difficult to find TIME when I had a few moments to spare unless I met the postman at the door and hid the magazine for future reference. Finally when my husband and mother-in-law were having their own race as to who was to get TIME first, I ... put my TIME-reading day over to the following Monday so they would...
...farmhouse near Fort Scott, Kansas, 48 years ago was born George Frederick Zook, son of Douglas and Helen Follenius Zook. In 1902 George Zook entered the University of Kansas, carrying his spare clothing in a shoe box. He worked his way through by driving a hearse. He made Phi Kappa Phi. Five years after graduating he married a classmate, Susie Gant. Specializing in modern European history, George Zook became a fellow at Kansas, an assistant at Cornell, an instructor at Pennsylvania State College, then an assistant professor, then an associate professor, then a full professor. From...
Many stolen cars are not resold but stripped of their wheels, lights, batteries, bumpers, etc. The stripped car is then dumped in the street and the parts sold to dealers who specialize in repairing stripped cars. Chicago strongly suspects that some Chrysler dealers eke out their incomes by buying spare parts cheaper than they can be got from the factory, even suspects some dealers of being in direct cahoots with gangs...