Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorts of people. But he has few friends, almost no social life and is seldom seen in Hollywood nightspots. Nothing but an ailing script can keep him from sleeping nine hours a night, and he is hard at work every morning at 8 o'clock. In his spare time he stares at motion pictures, often "stopping them and backing them up" to engage in rapt inspection of every last optical effect and lap dissolve. In five years, he has read only one book (The Caine Mutiny), but few films, good, bad or indifferent, have escaped his coldly appraising...
...Retail sales were also holding up well. General Electric, for example, reported that its sales of small appliances were 25% above last year's level. Personal income in January (at $282 billion) was $2 billion ahead of January 1953. There was no doubt that people had money to spare. Savings bond purchases totaled $422 million last month, the best February showing since...
FIVE & DIME oil boom is on at Seneca Lake in eastern Ohio since an auto dealer, wildcatting in his spare time, struck oil at 464 ft. So far, local businessmen have put down 30 wells, have 15 more adrilling, and leases on plots are going for as much...
Back-Porch Chemistry. The son of a Hollywood production manager, young Jerry Hines took singing lessons, but spent most of his spare time puttering with a chemistry lab on his back porch...
Last week, as President Pusey (pronounced Pewsey') went about his new routine-up at 7, in his office by 8:15-he hardly looked like even Harvard's idea of a Harvard president. A spare, soft-spoken man, frugal in word and gesture, he presents a front that nothing seems to ruffle, a calm sort of dignity that only now and then unbends for the friendly smile or the quiet flash of humor. Yet his face is scarcely lined, his hair has only a few flecks of grey, and his springy step is more like that...