Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spare the radio audience from this annoyance...
...deflating the dollar, would bring out $995,000,000 in new currency. Twice the House refused to accept this rider to the Home Loan bill. Thrice the Senate refused to accept the bill without the rider. After hours of night haggling, the House finally, with only four votes to spare, gave in to the Senate and both bill and rider went to the White House...
...caught out for 45. The West Indian players batted first and put together a creditable 152 but they had no bowlers to match left-handed Leslie O'Brien Fleetwood-Smith of Australia. The Australians promptly ran up 153 for four wickets. They had five wickets to spare when the stumps were drawn after their 300th run. In the second match against another team of Manhattan West Indians, Batsman Bradman contrived to compile a "century" (100 runs & better). His 117 helped the Australians put together 276 for seven wick ets. In the third match, Batsman Brad man had a disheartening...
...invalided out as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books, 10,000 phonograph records. Here he spends what time he can spare from his villa at Capri, exercises some feudal privileges thrown in with his lease, such as flying his own flag. Lately he acquired a wilder, remoter island off the coast of Scotland. Jethou is now for rent. Besides his playwriting and book-writing activities Author Mackenzie edits The Gramophone and Vox, a weekly dedicated...
...with a gas-leak 10 mi. away in the Missouri River, luckily upon a tiny island. All the others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later, few miles away, the rain-sogged City of Omaha fouled a farmer's fence, spilled her crew to the ground. Army No. 1, an early favorite, downed next at 600 mi. after a terrific battle with...