Word: stints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in the brooding eloquence that springs so naturally from his Welsh heritage, John L. Lewis declared: "Out of the agony and travail of economic America the C. I. O. was born. To millions of Americans, exploited without stint by corporate industry and socially debased beyond the understanding of the fortunate, its coming was as welcome as the dawn to the night watcher. . . . It is now and henceforth a definite instrumentality destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal course of the Republic...
Nevertheless, it does not appear altogether fair that alumni should be asked to back without stint a program which not even all the students wholeheartedly support, since the students are not incapable of hearing a small part of the burden. Only hearty cooperation between the undergraduates, in voluntarily supporting the H.A.A. while in college, and the alumni, in contributing toward a permanent fund, can bring an ultimate solution to the athletic program of the University...
Just as no expense was stinted to make the Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's "Bubble Ball" Philadelphia's party of the year, neither did the Record stint space to report, for Philadelphians without the engraved card necessary to pass detectives and a fresh-painted picket fence, all details such as pink satin walls, pink lilies and pink soapsuds fountain in the swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make...
Then there's the case of another follow who's been out a few years. His daily stint was to make up the afternoon sport spages of a Boston paper, which meant getting in to the office every morning at 7.30 o'clock--that magic hour again. In the afternoon he wrote a couple of stories for his paper. His spare time he spent on study, but he got through all right...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...