Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the cycle of birth, death and all the calamities in between are common daily experience. College volunteers provide the entire supply of non-trained orderlies for the Accident Room where almost every emergency case in Cambridge is treated. The 20 College students who contribute a weekly, three-hour stint do clerical work, restrain violent patients, assist at emergency births and X-rays, comfort the sick and injured while they await treatment, and wheel off the dead to the morgue. Cambridge City Volunteers probably see more of "a real slice of life" than anyone else not formally connected with...
...been reluctant to expand. But when bustling, 53-year-old Joe Block, grandson of Inland's founder, moved into the presidency 20 months ago, he brought some expansionist thinking with him. As vice president in charge of sales from 1936 to 1951 (with time out for a stint as steel expert on the War Production Board), he helped push yearly sales from $99 million to $519 million. As president, he turned his energy to improving efficiency, pushed Inland from eighth to seventh in the industry without adding a single open-hearth furnace...
...management consultant. They originally planned a FORTUNE-style magazine for French business, but Réaltiés' scope was soon broadened under Editor Max, 41. A onetime French wire service correspondent, Max studied U.S. publishing methods while living in the U.S., where he put in a stint with the Gallup Poll, married an American girl, and earned degrees at the University of Delaware and Washington, D.C.'s American University. After the war, Max joined Frerejean and Rémon, started molding a magazine that "people could be enthusiastic about...
...Young. He grew up in San Francisco, graduated from Princeton ('36) and went to the Chronicle as a copy boy. He spent four years as reporter and rewrite man, then moved over to the business side, sold ads, ran circulation and negotiated labor contracts. After a wartime stint in the Navy, where he was a lieutenant commander, he came back as assistant business manager of the Chronicle. He opened and managed the paper's radio station on the side, and when television reached the West Coast, he ran the Chronicle's TV station. He quickly turned...
...opposing pitchers had forgotten how to throw to him. But when the 27-year-old infielder returned to Yankee Stadium last week on terminal leave from the Army, he and the Yankees looked almost as good as they did in the 1953 World Series-when Martin's last stint produced a heroic .500 batting average, a sixth-game, ninth-inning single that gave the Yankees the crown. Against the Washington Senators Martin sparked his team with two crackling hits. Whitey Ford pitched a brilliant one-hitter, Mickey Mantle slammed out his 36th homer, drove in three runs, winning...