Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district which the late great Nicholas Longworth held for many a happy year. Speaker Longworth used to carry it effort lessly by 20,000 Republican votes. Last year, hard pressed by an aggressive young Democrat, he humped himself energetically, squeaked through with only 3,500 votes to spare. To succeed him and maintain the honor of "the Speaker's district'' Cincinnati Republicans nominated John Baker Hollister. Like Speaker Longworth, Nominee Hollister is a shining socialite of good old family, a Harvardman, a cultured and urbane gentleman. His law partners are the sons of President Taft, his home...
...popularity. In 1928 President Hoover carried New Jersey by 309,000 votes. Last week New Jersey went Democratic by a 232,000-vote plurality. Even the Republicans there attributed their defeat to the disfavor of the national administration. In 1928 Kentucky was President Hoover's with 177.000 votes to spare. Last week it was lost to a Republican nominee for Governor by 71.523 votes. A spectacular overturn in a hidebound Republican district in Michigan turned the House of Representatives Democratic. Connecticut, carried by President Hoover by 44,574 votes three years ago, saw its two largest cities swing into...
...moon crops grew twice a day. He also suggested that the moon was flung into space from the present site of the Pacific Ocean; that if that had not happened, the earth would now be peopled exclusively by deep sea fish. If anyone has $10,000,000 to spare, Professor Pickering offers to show him how to signal Mars...
...prices cover spare parts...
...hand to see her and to chat with his old friends, famed Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl and Designer Arnstein (who also designed the Graf Zeppelin). He watched with them while the ground crew "squeezed" the Akron into the dock alongside the Los Angeles with only 15 ft. to spare. Side by side, the Akron made the doughty old Los Angeles look nearly as small as the little J-ships used to look alongside the Los Angeles...