Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Effects of alcohol and drugs on mental efficiency are being computed in another section of the Fatigue Laboratory. Several of the drugs, incidentally, have been found stimulating; not so, the alcohol. A two hour stint at an instrument called the targetometer is guaranteed to produce mental fatigue in even the most alert...
Before the contest got under way, Stahl's squad elected center Mike Keene as captain for the remainder of this season. In his first year at the College Keene starred for the Freshman team. Returning from a stint in the army with a medical discharge, Keene is the only civilian in the starting lineup...
...quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy") to the latest blessed event in the Indian colony. Occasionally his desire...
Louis Post-Dispatch, a subeditor for the Manhattan publishing house of Doubleday, Doran, and for five years (after a stint of movie writing in Hollywood) a story scout for 20th Century-Fox films...
...Philadelphia, schools developed plans to fill retail-sales jobs on a basis of afternoon work on school days, an eight-hour Saturday stint. Returns to school were up over...