Word: stints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What follows is a bit of the Vagabond's credo. Not that your Old Fellow's stint around your heads--but it's one way of suggesting to you gentlemen who would be on the scholastic road this morning something about the Chinese philosophy of life. So, bless his soul, the Vagabond is not a Taoist or a Buddhist or a Confucian--though they serve as a basis for the popular religion in China today--no, the Old Rover's way is to make a system of systems. Prithee, "What is truth...
Whimsical...tragic...realistic...exalted...humorous...sensuous...melancholy...cynical...satirical...For joy! for shame! No, 'tis not the Vagabond. Not this time. The little stint this morning has to do with a certain Don Juan hailing from Spain and living many a spicy hour in the land of the Turk; the isles of Greece; the steppes of Russia; even unto Puritanical England...
...that at that point "private" charity must take up the burden. Any other solution, you claimed, would be completely un-American. Is it not slightly inconsistent to charge the very institutions that have of their own initiative assumed a share of the burden with snobbish evasion of their stint? --Yale Daily News...
...district. Doctors can usually choose the districts in which they want to practice. A doctor may practice as a specialist, after passing stiff examinations, and thereby get a slightly higher income from the government. He may practice privately (only 10% do) after his four or six-hour daily stint for the state. Education of doctors and nurses is below U. S. par, but improving. Pure research is encouraged...
Late in March Rivera squared off at his bare white wall in the RCA lobby. Tickets were issued to watch him do his daily stint. Art students, businessmen and Communists bought tickets as Rivera slowly spread paint down over the wall in a characteristic composition made up of huge, chunky units. Rockefeller Center workmen came free. Painting directly on wet plaster as in all true fresco, Rivera put on the wall the essentials of his submitted and approved sketches. Nelson Rockefeller came too to watch, told Rivera he liked the fresco. On May Day Rivera came to the head...