Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the house. He has frequently been introduced as "Mr. Think Jr." He studied economics at Brown University, graduated in 1937 and made a name for himself at I.B.M. as a salesman before he joined the Air Force (he ended up a lieutenant colonel). He served a six-month stint in & out of Russia when he helped open the lend-lease ferry route from Alaska to Moscow...
...Manhattan, Orchestra Leader Guy Lombardo finished his nightly stint at the Roosevelt Hotel, headed for his home in Long Island and drove his sleek British Jaguar straight into a traffic tragedy. Result: one man killed, a woman seriously injured. Lombardo was released without being charged; the pedestrians had apparently stepped into the street against a traffic light...
...After a stint as a Marine flyer in World War II, Fox took his first flyer in gas. He tried to get control of the New England Gas & Electric Assoc. in 1948, lost out by ½ of 1% of the votes in a bitter proxy fight. But he salvaged something from defeat; the company stock he had bought to further his fight had climbed in value and he sold out with a profit estimated at close...
Some scientists do things as work that other people do for pleasure. Dr. Eugenie Clark, 29, comely ichthyologist of New York's American Museum of Natural History, picked as her job a stint of swimming in the warm Red Sea. She made her base at Ghardaqa, Egypt, where Fouad University has a marine biological station. For the next ten months, Dr. Clark was one of the sights of Ghardaqa. The Moslems of Ghardaqa, who wrap their own women like mummies, watched with open amazement as she went down to the sea in a bathing suit. Their jaws dropped even...
...when his father, a tin-mill worker, died, young Bill had to quit school to go to work. He studied stenography, clerked by day and read law at night. In 1917, he was the University of Pittsburgh's youngest law graduate (22). After a World War I stint overseas as a tank commander, he became a trust officer for what is now the Peoples First National Bank & Trust Co. At 44, he became the bank's president. In the following three years, it climbed from sixth to third largest in Pittsburgh. This phenomenal performance caught...