Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Africa started in 1911 when, to forestall the territorial hopes of Germany and France, she declared war on Turkey and seized the province of Tripoli. The Turks were easily dispatched but not so the Senussi tribesmen of the interior. During the War, when Italy had no men to spare for Africa, Senussi tribesmen drove the Italians back to the coast and practically reconquered the territory...
...went for Hoover, but, as a sort of political compensation, Mr. Roosevelt squeaked through to victory with a 25,000-vote majority. After two years as Governor, he was renominated and all on his own strength in 1930 won a whacking big victory with 725,001 votes to spare. His success in this second election was widely interpreted as his qualification for the Presidency, a proof of his vote-getting ability. Not until last week, however, would he publicly admit a national candidacy...
...Alice in Wonderland, might come from her home in Lyndhurst. England to attend the ceremonies, Columbia University postponed its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth from Jan. 27 to May 4, which will be Mrs. Hargreaves' 80th birthday. The postponement was arranged to spare Mrs. Hargreaves the rigors of a winter voyage. "Alice" alone survives of the three daughters of Dean Henry George Liddell for whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the sombre, pedantic young Oxford lecturer, composed the fantastic "Wonderland" stories. Her husband died six years ago. Two of her sons were killed...
...chosen as most worthy to relieve Toscanini, no audience this season has waited with more curiosity to read the criticisms in next day's papers. How would the big German please Critic Lawrence Gilman, sitting languid and aloof on the left side of the house? How would spare, dry William James Henderson react to him? Or Olin Downes, sitting a few rows behind Henderson? Gilman went to the Herald Tribune office, wrote poetically of the program's "deathless" beauty, praised Walter as "a conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing modesty and simplicity of attitude...
...much as information about the fields towards which they gravitate. It is safe to say that almost every man who has been able to graduate from Harvard can be of some effective use in the world, if he finds himself in the correct environment. The Consultant on Careers should spare him the bewilderment and bitterness of disillusion which so often makes him deviate from his purpose and lose his personal faith...