Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the corporation made its choice: vigorous, bumper-jawed 43-year-old Yale history Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold. A Yaleman himself (class of '29), Griswold had started out with literary ambitions.* But after a summer stint in a Wall Street brokerage office, he went back to Yale to teach. Since then he has been a witty, popular instructor in the departments of English and history. In 1947 he became one of Yale's youngest full professors, meanwhile turned out a brace of scholarly, readable books (The Far Eastern Policy of the United States, Farming and Democracy...
...good man on the ground, Johnson soon joined Humphries in a management team. After a stint in P.A.T. (eventually absorbed into United Airlines), they worked in the construction supply business before tackling their biggest job in 1941. In that year they were hired by Edward H. Heller, New-Dealing California businessman and later a member of the Surplus Property Board, to pull his Pacific Intermountain Express, a West-Coast-to-Chicago truckline...