Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must the institution of the new tenure system mean the abrupt dismissal of men who are bearing a major burden in their respective departments? Is the transition to the new plan sufficient reason for their unprecedented discharge when they were normally slated for renewals of their appointments? Is this action a continuation of the frozen budget policy said to be responsible for the Walsh-Sweezy fiasco? Has many attention been paid to the Committee's suggestion for a more flexible budget? Will Harvard, by this rude action, lose the reputation for decency which has helped to make it famous...
...anger he is cold and biting, but he never explodes in barrack bluster. A sure way to anger George Marshall is to ask him to change his mind when he has once made it up. No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult. Yet his colleagues account him a warm and friendly fellow...
...charge of advertising and publicity. > Marvin W. Smith, manager of engineering of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., became a vice president. > Richard ("Bobby") Weil Jr. became president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co., whose $30,000,000 annual sales make it the fourth biggest U. S. department store. Slight, abrupt President Weil is a 31-year-old Yaleman, son of Minnie Straus, whose family owns both Bamberger's and Manhattan's big R. H. Macy & Co. Also announced last week: the retirement at 83 of Board Chairman Louis Bamberger...
Only voluminous histories can retrace the steps of post-War diplomacy, unravel post-War complexities. But refreshing memories of events since the Armistice makes last week's war news seem less abrupt, the transition from post-War to pre-War less startling. Against the broad sweep of history, that period is brief-246 months, 1,063 weeks, 7,453 days, time for 20 wheat crops, for 20 classes to graduate...
...until June 30, and promptly took emphatic advantage of its invitation to ask for the $150,000,000 it had lopped off, in case an "emergency" loomed. He said in effect that the lopping itself had created an emergency. Then he pictured the abrupt firing of 1,000,000 WPAsters in April, or the scaling-down of 1,500,000 from April to June...