Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned a lot about transportation, just the same, as he shuttled from railroading to one small trucking job after another, and he spent his spare time and money on books-the Bible, Shakespeare, and everything he could get on transport. By the time he had reached middle age, ambitious Jim Glynn seemed to be highballing down the road to his goal...
...island's defenses is the air force. On the airfields which dot Formosa's western coast, some 300 operable aircraft-fighters, bombers, transports-are ready to fly. But most military observers doubt that the air force can remain in operational condition longer than six months without U.S. spare parts and technical advisers...
Formosa's modern, Japanese-built power plants, badly battered by U.S. wartime bombing and in dire need of spare parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...
...become a tradition at U.S.C. A pink-faced, bouncy man who gives the readings his dramatic best, he has had enthusiastic audiences since he began. Last week he went from Dickens to Benchley, from a medieval carol ("From far away we come to you . . .") to Ogden Nash ("Epstein, Spare that Yule Log!"), to poems written by soldiers at Tobruk...
...kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...