Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have No Idea." Inventor Ross, 31, who got his technical training as a radar expert after volunteering for the British Army in World War II, made most of his new device himself from spare parts and equipment he dug up at Seattle's Intervox Corp. (electronic products), where he is chief engineer. Last week he seemed a little surprised at all the excitement he had caused in the Navy...
Gold Net. The man behind Macao's prosperity is a shrewd, wiry Portuguese-Dutch-Malay named Pedro J. Lobo, who runs Asia's largest gold market in Macao and in fact runs Macao also. Lobo lives well, and in his spare time composes music (including an operetta called Cruel Separation). Lobo's title is economic director of the colony. On each ounce of gold, most of which arrives on Catalina flying boats owned by Lobo, he levies two taxes: an official one of 35? for the Macao treasury, another of $2.10 for himself. This has netted Lobo...
...confided my thoughts to him. He answered me: 'Mother, we must accuse him.' My son tried to persuade his father to repent, but this bad man not only refused to reform but reprimanded us. After that my son told me: 'Mother, it is useless to spare this bad egg. You should not recognize him as a husband, and I should not recognize him as a father...
Then he heard about other foreign colleges and schools that needed help. "Never had much of a chance to read books myself," he would say, "and I appreciate how much they mean to people who are in the same fix." In his spare time, he begged books wherever he could-duplicates from libraries, old books from professors; he bought discarded textbooks from the state for a dollar...
...contrast, the F. Scott Fitzgerald set seem intent on perpetuating the "twenties" and their attempts to revive the raccoon coat, hip-flask, Stutz Beareat era, although interesting as social history, seem to be destined for eventual frustration due to moths and the lack of spare parts...