Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another six months. U. S. short term credits to Hungary total about $35,000,000. New York bankers agreed to the "stillstand" provided Hungarian bankers would at least pay interest and commissions on the loans falling due in the meantime. No Budapest bank had even that much money to spare. The conference fell through...
...Ames competition, which occupies the spare time of the students, giving them practical legal training, begins with 60 clubs, in the first-year class. The students are divided up into these groups which are named after well-known graduates of the Harvard Law School. All but eight are eliminated by the third year, by means of the contests in which picked members of each club argue on opposite sides of a hypothetical case. The Scott Club, named after Professor A. W. Scott, defeated the Pound society, named in honor of Roscoe Pound, dean of the Law School, while the Lowell...
...flopper down the hill to school. A tall pine stands out in the pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over night. Young boughs trail their white burden on the road way. In the woods, where the sun falls, snow slides off the needles and drops with a soft thud. A tiny rabbit scurries off on hastily remembered business and a grouse whirrs up into the blue...
...Africa a 60% disability from malaria. After the Armistice he and his wife went to live on Capri, still spend most of their time there. A pianist (his wife is a concert singer), Author Young also composes, has written music for the Songs of Robert Bridges. Mild-mannered, quiet, spare, with a pipe usually in position above an unaggressive chin, Francis Brett Young looks his part: a quite successful, quite good English author. Other books: The Crescent Moon, My Brother Jonathan, The Redlakes...
...than three times those charged by mail agencies. But many observers believe that one-half of one percent would be a fairer estimate. Two typical concerns which felt that they might save money by shipping by air were White Truck Co. and Packard Motor Car Co., heavy shippers of spare parts. The White company estimated it could reduce its inventory of parts in 32 scattered service stations from...