Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jean-clad members of both sexes move from dormitory to seminar to lunch; yet, each person within the group maintaing perhaps too deliberately something of his own personality. In spare moments on an occasional dull weekend, Bardians are not unaccustomed to gather in the grassy quadrangle between the men's and women's dormitories, to beat drums and play records, and improvise original dances to their tunes--all to pass the afternoon...
With the Yale game coming up Saturday, varsity coach Bruce Munro will try to spare his regulars as much as possible. Tom Crump, Dexter Lewis, and John Lane probably won't play at all because of minor injuries. Don Dawidoff and John Howard, reserve attackmen who have seen very little action, should play most of the game today...
...last week: ¶Democratic Senator Ed Johnson, retiring from the Senate (TIME, April 12) but not from politics, allowed as how he is just the man to provide the "strong and experienced hand" that Colorado needs at its helm. Announcing his candidacy as governor, Johnson said: "I will not spare the horses." ¶ Louisiana's Democratic National Committeeman Frank B. Ellis, leader of the successful pro-Stevenson forces in his state's savage 1952 campaign, entered the U.S. Senate primary race against Incumbent Allen Ellender. Making it clear that he would leave no vote unturned. Ellis said...
Would-be Historian Chávez has managed to write a little on Mexican history in his spare time, but, through the institute, he has done more to make it. Says he: "It is false and niggardly to believe that because we are a modest country our hospitals must be sordid and our patients must lack essentials. Yes, modern hospitals can function in Mexico...
...Meyer Kestnbaum, 57, scholarly president of Hart Schaffner & Marx, was named by President Eisenhower to succeed Clarence E. Manion as chairman of the Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. A quiet, shy man, with an astonishing literary appetite,, "Kesty" spends most of his spare time reading, a practice he feels too many businessmen avoid. An early member of Citizens for Eisenhower, he is chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and a director of the Chicago Community Fund. Kesty figures that he can do the job without quitting Hart Schaffner & Marx or moving to Washington...