Word: skimp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than Poet MacLeish bargained for. But unless he should make a laureateship out of the librarianship, his new job will take hours longer beyond reckoning. Poet MacLeish accepted it because, he said, it is one of those posts which "no man has a right to refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected only by persons who have never seen tough-minded, tough-muscled Poet MacLeish at work; who do not know that he was a field artillery captain in the War, before that played water polo and football for Yale...
...fishwife; a Turkish engineer; a doctor and his wife, a Parisian hairdresser who filled her trunk with useless sport clothes; a mechanic and his wife; about 25 common seamen and lobstermen. Another bad mistake de Boers made before setting out from sunny St. Malo, France last May was to skimp on coal...
...curiosity; he found that plenty of people came to look, few to buy. Luggage, he decided, was too expensive to sell readily. He wondered why no one had thought of renting it. Visiting railroad and airline offices, steamship and travel bureaus, he planted an idea: if vacationists could skimp on luggage, perhaps they would splurge on trips. In partnership with 37-year-old Austin Wyman, who put up the money, he opened, as a side line, the first U. S. luggage renting service, distributed folders headlined "Rent Your Luggage," urged Chicago vacationists to ask travel agencies about the service...
Just now buttons, shoes, dress goods, fountain pens and other articles of culture on which Russians have had to skimp for 20 years, are momentarily abundant in Moscow, having just arrived from Japan in barter-payment for Russia's share of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, March 25, 1935). Long queues of buyers at once formed but Soviet police, as usual, shortened them by the old device of arresting as "speculators" persons who bought more than one or two articles. Sentenced to five years in jail was a Moscow housewife who had bought only one pair of shoes...
...Chesterton and Galsworthy and Max Beerbolom, contains careful selections from the masterworks of each of the grant English prose writers which not only give an idea of the artists at their best but often attempt honestly to reflect upon all the various facets of his genius. Any anthology will skimp here and there, will give too much space to men its readers may not think highly of individually; it is safe to say that under Professors Whitridge and Dodge this anthology has consistently accorded as much space as seems wise both in the development of English prose and the attraction...