Word: stints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tersely, in coherent English. For the term of candidacy is primarily concerned with inculcating in prospective editors the desire and ability to write cogently, and with providing them the opportunity to form opinions on matters pertaining to the University, to education in general, and to the outside world. The stint of one editorial a day, though at first repugnant to the customary undergraduate ideas of the ways and means of leisure, is far from difficult after the candidate has found what is expected of him and where best to look for his subjects...
...will stint applause, or damn with faint praise this much needed measure. Other plans for meeting the situation had been suggested, but probably none would have met with as full a measure of approbation from the student body at large, or from those employed, even though they might have saved Harvard a considerable sum. The single question of the fate of those not cared for by this scheme remains. These positions have been assigned to House residents alone, and there must be a number of men in the graduate schools and undergraduates living, for the sake of economy, in private...
...Teachers belong to the highest type of human being. . . ." They often stint themselves in order to support small brothers and sisters. (By adroit planning a teacher can dress well on a small outlay...
Twenty hours a day was the usual stint of Tchitcherin. Often he worked without sleep clear around the clock. In those days the Soviet Foreign Office was full of peasants and proletarians, learning to be diplomats. Tchitcherin had to do almost everything himself, and correct what others did. Under the terrible pressure of conducting single-handed the foreign affairs of Europe's largest nation. Tchitcherin burned himself out with detail, reached the point where he sharpened his own pencils...
Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New-York World-Telegram, as part of his daily stint, related a story which "a priest told me of Cardinal Gibbons. . . . When he returned from Rome a newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner...