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Word: sparingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Financial Genius Murchison can build the Trans-Canada pipeline for $3,000,000, then he must also be an engineering wizard in his spare time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...Machinery lies all around the railroad stations. One can see everywhere mounds of broken parts lying in the mud . . . Many things get spoiled. Gasoline, lubricants, hay, spares, combines are being kept together in one backyard; hay mowers rot in the compost . . . Some spare parts are just thrown into the middle of the street, and the tractors which go by crush them to pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trishka's Coat | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...through New York City from Raleigh, N.C. to Toronto, Ontario and experienced a three-or four-hour layover between planes. Several months before, Publisher Linen in his weekly letter expressed the wish that subscribers to the magazine call in at your offices in Rockefeller Plaza to while away a spare moment. This was, therefore, an excellent opportunity to take advantage of Mr. Linen's invitation and simultaneously to occupy some time while waiting for the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Malaya would do without Templer was anybody's guess. But the hard, lean soldier would not be forgotten. "Templer left his impression on the whole country," wrote a Malayan. "Perhaps he will be a legend in the kampongs. They will remember the spare, striding figure, the smile that lit the eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Success of a Mission | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...moved up from executive vice president to president of Crucible Steel Co. of America, producer of high-quality alloys. Son of a Georgia C.P.A., Hunter took over his father's accounting firm in 1928, later merged it with Haskins & Sells of Manhattan, auditors for Crucible. In his spare time ("I really haven't any"), Hunter likes to golf (around 100) and to "mosey around" his six-acre Sewickley, Pa. estate. He replaces William P. Snyder Jr., who will continue as a member of Crucible's executive committee and board of directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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