Word: diem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...barrage of buffets and catered meals came at the traditional three times per diem in Lowell, the Union, the Block-house, Mem Hall, the Harvard Club, and the Hotel Somerset with the diet ranging from Dublin stew to roast beef. The food never ran out although at times fraudulent reunions and uninvited guests almost outnumbered the genuine articles. Led by hopeful Olympic oarsmen, a horde of disguised undergraduates lunched Tuesday on seafood Newburgh at Lowell...
Temporary Duty. The German scientists are listed as "civilian employes of the U.S. War Department, European Theater, On temporary duty in the U.S." They earn a small daily wage ($2-$11), which is paid to their dependents in Germany. In addition, they get the regular $6 per diem allowance for detached duty...
...Archbishop of Canterbury had the time of his life in a whirlwind one-month, 10,000-mile U.S.-Canada tour, on which he visited the White House, got honorary degrees from Columbia, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, estimated that his public utterances had averaged 1.95 per diem. Archiepiscopal purpose: to get acquainted with the clergy of the Anglican Communion in Canada and the U.S. Canada and the U.S. also got to know something of the long-jawed, gaitered Primate. In Philadelphia, a news photographer caught him getting into his canonicals (see cut); the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully reprinted...
...effort to increase interest in ROTC, a bill is now pending before Congress which will, in its present form, provide men in the elementary course with $20 per month subsistance and all equipment. This bill will also give men in advanced courses a $20 subsistance allowance plus $1.25 per diem for uniforms. The plan is almost certain of passage, according to McClure, since it is supported by President Truman and the Military Affairs Committee in both Houses of Congress...
...queen. She, incarcerated by her own obesity in the center of the community, is fed by the workers who bring her food and who carry away the eggs as fast as she lays them-which among certain African species may total as high as 40,000 per diem (and this for 30 years). The male, bewildered by all this fecundity, crawls about Her Majesty's belly performing his time-honored functions. . . . Nor will the colony die if the queen dies. In a manner still an entomological mystery, the workers of the termites can take one of the winged species...