Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SEAC was sponsored by the Office of the Comptroller of the Air Force and will devote much of its thinking time to dealing with the fog of figures stirred up by modern systems of military logistics. If, in World War III, advanced U.S. air bases get the proper fuel, spare parts, ammunition, etc., at the right time, the pilots can thank SEAC...
...workroom, freckled, 13-year-old Dick Jorgensen of Chevy Chase, Md. managed to put together a workable TV set one afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...
...experts, including the great Frenchman J. H. Fabre (TIME, Aug. 22) and several Americans. But his book is larded with personal observations and reminiscences, and he pays his respects to lay enthusiasts like himself: "Our knowledge of spiders-in this country [England] at any rate-is due entirely to spare-time naturalists, men who labour, or laboured, for love; clergymen, schoolmasters, doctors, businessmen and others...
...forest abstractions which hung in Paris' small Galerie de France last week had all the space that anyone could ask for. Spare and faintly colored, they resembled at their best delicate Chinese landscapes; at worst, they looked as though Tal-Coat had been cleaning some not-very-dirty brushes on his canvas...
...Individuals may get stuck in unsuitable jobs," Conant said. "Through the medium of education in spare time, opportunity should be offered to men and women in their late twenties or even in their thirties to change their specialized vocations...