Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar Jacques Barzun, provost of Columbia University, wrote a warm personal note: "In a period when the rarity of good teaching is notorious and likely to increase, it is a rash administrator who would dismiss a competent and reliable teacher solely on the ground of not following to the letter a secondary obligation in the form of paper work...
...everyone feels somewhere in his heart that these nasty people ought to be in jail, and very likely that is where they will be within a year or so, unless some judge has courage enough, despite inevitable suspicions of bribery, to dismiss the indictment or to reverse the conviction that a jury trial will probably produce. Just as with Al Capone in the Thirties, the Federal law enforcement authorities have not been able to prove a case against the defendants for major crimes and have had to resort to irrelevant charges like doubtful income tax evasion or "conspiracy to obstruct...
...special committee, instituted this year for the first time, will read all suggested plays and "dismiss only those impossible to produce." The membership of the HDC will then ballot on the spring production...
...strongly worded report to be presented at tonight's Council meeting, the committee has registered objections to both the loyalty oath and the disclaimer affidavit of the National Defense Education Act. To date, University officials have criticized only the affidavit and have tended to dismiss the loyalty oath as innocuous...
...priceless art collection. It required many servants, researchers, a Tuscan villa with a vast formal garden in which to "taste the air." Hearing that he had his watch warmed to body temperature by the butler every morning before he strapped it on his wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly at sipping the ephemeral sweetness of things. His garden drew from him a typically overtrained, anxious and caressing response: he found the lichen "as gorgeous as an Aztec or Maya mosaic," and the moss...