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Einstein rarely wears socks except in winter, at home usually dresses in slippers, baggy pants and a brown leather jacket, which he refuses to change even to receive distinguished visitors. His Spartan study at Princeton, from which even his family is sternly barred, is furnished only with an unpainted table, a few unpainted shelves, a pencil and paper for his mathematical calculations. Though his salary from the Institute for Advanced Study is $20,000 a year (four times the sum he suggested when the Institute asked him to name his own figure, according to Marianoff), he has never owned...
Wendell Willkie offered U.S. voters Spartan fare: tightened belts and a monstrous tax burden. At New York Times Hall, he asked $16 billion in taxes this year. That was double what the Administration asked, and nearly eight times as much as Congress had voted. In the name of soldiers in battle he asked: "Why should we be comfortable...
...pursues a timid barber whose sexual career has been sparse if not Spartan...
...other hand, there are some more energetic characters who have displayed Spartan disregard for physical wear and gear, and also revealed the urge common to all hero worshippers to retain souvenirs of their idols. As a result, our door is reduced to a couple of loose hinges and half a door knob (highly polished, nevertheless...
...relaxed long since from its Spartan attitude that the U.S. must suffer for suffering's sake. Last week WPB relaxed again, granted permission to make ten household articles from carpet sweepers to pot cleaners, instructed textile spinners to set aside a certain percentage of yarn for civilians (winter underwear). But these were unsatisfactory, catch-as-catch-can patching attempts...