Word: spare
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...
...Oliver hopes to bring about the composer's ruin by having him sing it in the royal presence. At the close of the song the king summons before him Loyse, a beautiful bourgeoise with whom Oliver-Le-Daim has fallen in love. Louis promises Gringoire that he will spare his life if he succeeds in winning Loyse within the hour. When left alone with her, however, the poet forces himself, by a supreme effort, to keep silence on the subject of the king's command. On the latter's return, Loyse for the first time realizes Gringoire's position...
...Harvard team and substitutes returned to the Norfolk Hunt Club, Medfield, yesterday, after lunching at the Union. In the course of the afternoon, without donning, football clothes, the men ran through signals on the grounds of the club, lining up as they will today. They spent the spare time in walking or in playing cards, and retired, early in the evening...
...memorized by frequent practice. The result often is that when the Yale game comes, the new songs must still be sung, like unfamiliar hymns, from slips of paper. If there were no better reason for not putting this off until the last minute, a feeling of pride should spare us the torture of listening to extemporaneous songs...
Another point in favor of such a scheme would be the opportunity offered to old football players in the professional schools, who are ineligible for the University team, and who indeed should not be expected to spare the time necessary to play through the season. By joining a graduate squad for a few days of practice they would have a welcome change from their work without sacrificing more time than they could well afford. The social side of football has often been a minor consideration, and any move which tends to bring this side to the fore...