Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare time, he retreats to his isolated camp in southern New Hampshire, where, ten miles from the nearest town, he hunts birds, skis with his wife, and makes wooden tables and cabinets in an elaborate shop. So good is his cabinet making that he was able to give his daughter a dining room table as a wedding present...
When Father Finn took a group of boys to New York City in 1918 to form a new choir, O'Malley went along as his assistant director. He spent his spare time at the Metropolitan Opera and his spare cash on Victrola records. On the side he served as choirmaster of St. Gregory's Church, and staged concerts in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. He was just 17 then. "I had a lot of nerve," he admits...
...laggard in mathematics and was put in a special class, where he was made to do sums in his head. The lessons stuck, and he now astounds people with his memory for figures and lightning-like calculations. Schoolmate Sid Richardson, who is five years older, spent his spare time trading cattle. Sid taught Clint so much about cattle trading that Murchison was able to run a crippled heifer into $1,500 by the time he entered Texas' Trinity University...
Father's name this time is Mr. Hobbs. Edward (Dere Mabel) Streeter, the vice president of the Bank of New York who fathered Father in his spare time, now puts that vestigial American male through his paces during a vacation. The summer house, on an island off New England, has been rented sight unseen and looks it. but Mr. Hobbs is brave in the face of basketwork furniture, a recalcitrant pump and a cesspool that backfires...
John Davison's Four Songs to Poems by George Herbert might have made a better impression had they been transposed. Although Jean Lunn '55 had sung Father Woollen's songs well, the Davison selections lay mostly in her weak upper-middle range; breathy tone lent little conviction to his spare melodic lines...