Word: appointed
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...resentment; and they in turn, by innuendo and gesture, had communicated their sentiments to certain younger members of the department. Briggs knew it would not do to allow a discussion, or, above all, a vote. Smiling blandly, he asked Hall and Ford if they would allow him to appoint a committee to study their proposal. His actual words were, "a committee to adjudicate and possibly to implement your proposal." They readily agreed, and Briggs asked for and got a motion for adjournment...
When the Masters meet today and discuss the manner of their appointments of inter-House council members, they had better be careful, and stop, and look. There is an unpleasant number of students in each of the Houses who will shortly be knocking on the Masters' study doors, aspiring and available young men who would be glad to take the burden of inter-House membership. These are just the kind of twerp politico types that the Student Council should not include in its membership. The reason Masters should appoint students is just that it is desirable to avoid the slick...
Next year, the UAC will appoint one or two cheerleaders from each major sport to make up the eight man squad. The appointees must be juniors or seniors who have received their varsity...
...central Cabinet out of Syria and into Egypt. A second was to clip the scheming Colonel Abdel Hamid Ser-raj's power as proconsul in Syria by placing him under the Egyptian Minister of Interior, who would take over Serraj's much-prized authority to appoint Syrian provincial governors. That took care of the two most ambitious power seekers in Damascus. In the shuffle Nasser also dropped his second Syrian Vice President, Sabri el Assali. Then he published decrees abolishing Syria's tribal laws and extending Egyptian land reforms to the northern province, two measures designed...
Most encouraging is the plan by which the Master of each House appoints one House member to the Council. While such members do not fulfill the classic notions of representatives, they will probably be among the more able and articulate members of the body. Hopefully, Masters will appoint students other than House Committee members to the posts, and thus make the jobs even less politically oriented...