Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season pennant favorites with the majority of baseball writers, were finally beginning to act as advertised. Vollmer's sensational spree was not the whole story: the Red Sox have power to spare with Williams, Vern Stephens, and Billy Goodman, the league batting champion. The team is better off this year in "bench" (i.e., reserve) infield strength supplied by Lou Boudreau, deposed Cleveland manager. Day after day, playing where he is needed most, Boudreau has sparked the Red Sox at bat and afield...
...Crazy Cliff. When the seedy night elevator man proposes sending a young prostitute to his room, bravado makes him play along. Besides: "I worry about that stuff sometimes. I read this book once . . . that had this very sophisticated, suave, sexy guy in it . . . and all he did in his spare time was beat women off with a club ... He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right. It was a very corny book-I realize that-but I couldn...
Maybe they call it erotica, but local college students like their sex wrapped up in pulp paper for spare time reading just as much as their less-educated contemporaries, a survey of Square newspaper stand operators, spa keepers, and candy store owners disclosed this week...
...desire is not prevalent in the stolidity of summer school self-improvement, where the air conditioning system in Lamont clearly repudiates it. Surely a system of bells could be installed in Lamont, perhaps at no greater cost than the annual repair bill for the Memorial Hall clock. It would spare the wind of both professor and student...
...from college, he trekked through Japan, Manchuria and Russia, taking motion pictures which were later used by the MARCH OF TIME. After receiving his degree in liberal arts with the class of 1936, he went to work as an $18-a-week stock boy at Famous-Barr, spent his spare time playing in tennis tournaments in Missouri, where he was a top-ranked player, started a modern art collection now considered one of St. Louis' best. Gradually, Buster May rose to assistant buyer and assistant merchandise manager in Famous-Barr's basement...