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He spent his leisure time devising with Philip Christison more up-to-date theories of logistics, staff duties and tactical handling, only to be reprimanded by Lord Gort, the Commandant, for taking things too fast.
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An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging puppet shows, and reading Il corriere dei piccoli, the popular children ’ s magazine that reproduced traditional American cartoons by Winsor McCay, George McManus and Frederick Burr Opper.
He remained a devoted Catholic while a student, and spent most of his leisure time with members of his fencing fraternity, the " League of Apollo ", the president of which was Jewish.
King never married, but had several close women friends, including Joan Patteson, a married woman with whom he spent some of his leisure time.
He spent much of his leisure time in the town and constructed the Royal Pavilion during the early part of his Regency.
This money is often spent on leisure activities such as food, clothes, cosmetics, cars, and stereo equipment.
It seems that as an adult he often spent his leisure time sequestered in his room, reading books in an attempt to improve his education.
During World War II, thousands of soldiers trained at Fort Knox and spent their leisure hours at the USO in Radcliff.
Bahrdt's year's enforced leisure he spent in writing indecent stories, coarse polemics, and an autobiography which is described as " a mixture of lies, hypocrisy and self-prostitution.
During this time, he spent his leisure at the home of his uncle Bob Cowper, where he fell in love with his cousin Theodora, whom he wished to marry.
Increasingly, leisure time is spent on computer games.
The last forty years of his long life seem to have been spent in ideal leisure and occupation, visiting eminent clergymen and others who enjoyed fishing, compiling the biographies of congenial spirits, and collecting a little here and a little there for the enlargement of his famous treatise.
As a horse racing fan, Bradley spent much of his leisure time at racetracks in California and often presented the winners trophies.
When asked how they spent their leisure time, 80 percent of a sample of men and women surveyed by the government in 1986 said they averaged about two and a half hours per weekday watching television, listening to the radio, and reading newspapers or magazines.
Others spent leisure time participating in sports, socializing, and personal study.
So far as a professional gamer is financially dependent upon gaming, the time spent playing is no longer " leisure " time.
After his wife left in 1843 " he spent a large part of his leisure in the main archival repositories in Paris, where he copied documents relating French rule in Canada ".
The university has engaged in a wave of modern expansion since 2008, and has invested more than £ 300 million in transforming its campus over the coming years, resulting in new state-of-the-art educational, research, residential and leisure facilities with a further £ 80 million being spent to improve current assets.
During his early service years, he spent leisure time at White's Club, where he was a member, and occasionally travelled, going at least as far as Paris.
Life at the monastery of Bury St. Edmund's, where he spent most of his life, gave him a leisure that many another poet might have envied, and enabled him to explore and establish every major Chaucerian genre, except such as were manifestly unsuited to his profession, like the fabliau.
This gave him plenty of leisure time, which he spent in reading and study.
Whereas other wartime officers sought leisurely pursuits at each opportunity, Beaufort spent his leisure time taking soundings and bearings, making astronomical observations to determine longitude and latitude, and measuring shorelines.
His regiment saw very little action, however, he had a good deal of leisure time, almost all of which he spent on botany.
He spent much of his leisure in the careful study of plants which he sought for in their native habitat, and described with an accuracy hitherto unknown in England.
He spent his leisure in collecting materials for a volume of local ballads which he published in 1819 under the title of The Harp of Renfrewshire.
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This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.
The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.
Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Mrs. Coolidge spent more time in her bedroom among her doll collection.
He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.
The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.
This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.
Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.
He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.
The applicant pays the rest of the cost, but his own time spent on the work and charges for the use of equipment which he owns may be applied toward his share of the cost.
However, as much time as possible should be spent within the shelter to hold radiation exposure to a minimum.
The cleaner air means less time spent pushing a vacuum, fewer trips to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing machine.
but they all hastened to add that certainly less time was needed on it than presently spent.
( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.
More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.
Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..
She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.
-- A Houston teacher, now serving in the Legislature, proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods ''.
His spare time is spent in soaring gliders.
They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.
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