Word: spare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with which we were going to play our first game. It seems that they were such cracks that they had a split in the team, and are therefore obliged to cancel the game. In order not to disappoint the immense crowd who has already bought his ticket, and to spare us the bother of cancelling a tremendous order with the Harvard Brewing Company for that night, we have decided to accept your offer of a practice game. We warn you however, that we will come fully equipped with our own squad of us hors, referees, umpires...
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye"; and, except advertisements and new subjects for Advocate Prize Essays, it serves up nothing without an infusion of football--as if it would restore temperance by surfeiting, like a Keeley cure. It might well spare us "Statistics of Harvard Players." When a man plays football through one Freshman season and three Varsity seasons, we read his condensed biography seven times in the CRIMSON and become so accustomed to it that we do not need it in the Advocate. If the Advocate's example is followed by the Monthly, the Illustrated Magazine, the Lampoon...
...founded in the University. Plans will be discussed for a permanent organization of an efficient character. It is not so much the desire of the Progressive managers to have a very large organization as to have active men who are ready and willing to give what time they can spare in earnest endeavor to help the party. Assurances of support from the office of the Progressive National Executive Committee in New York have already been received...
...Richardson was born in Athol in 1851. After graduating from College in 1873 he taught school for a year in Salem, studying medicine during his spare time so that at the end of the year he was enabled to take up work with the second class in the Medical School. From there he was graduated in 1876, and three months later accepted a position in the Anatomical Department. Since then he has been continually occupied with his surgical practice...
...University eight rowing 28 strokes to the minute, and the Freshman about two points higher. The latter had gained almost a length at the mile and a quarter mark when both crews raised the stroke above thirty and the University pulled ahead with half a length to spare...