Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the period of study required for an M.A. degree may be reduced by introducing two summer school sessions of six weeks each, instead of the present single six week stint...
Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words...
...could not show she was a U.S. citizen. For a single broadcast Bill Henry's telephone bill runs to about $100. Although he has no plans for continuing the program when Hedda Hopper returns next month, radioracles are betting he will have a sponsor before he finishes his stint. Luck is Bill Henry's long suit...
Arthur Godfrey's schedule is bruising. Six days a week from 5:35 to 6:45 a.m. E.S.T. he broadcasts via direct wire over Manhattan's WABC; then over Washington's WJSV he holds forth from 6:45 to 9. His weekly stint also calls for a couple of 15-minute transcriptions for Carnation Milk, which are mailed to 38 local stations. Betimes he records sea chanteys and sentimental ballads for Decca, by which he makes $7,000 a year...
...cartoons in the show were a cross section of rabid Isolationist Fitzpatrick's daily stint, from bulge-jawed Mussolinis and neurasthenic Hitlers to war-racked skeletons, the bums and shady politicians of St. Louis' own legendary Rat Alley. Fellow cartoonists took their hats off to Fitzpatrick's slick technique of getting his points over without capsizing his cartoons with explanatory captions. Fitzpatrick's muscular draftsmanship and Doré-like spaciousness (see cut) are, if not art, something close...