Word: employ
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lord and Lady Algy" is, as you choose, a bad example of the well-made play, or a good example of the badly-made play. Its characters are masters of misunderstanding, they employ their subtlety in letting the obvious elude them; if they once stopped to think the whole show would be given away, so they never stop to think. Yet the play is charming, with its odor of jockeys and horse-racing, baronets and bachelor apartments, epigrams, good bad women and other pleasant things now out of date. True, the text now contains motors cars, and a subway...
...Philadelphia merchant for the education of women at the university, be used to build a separate college for women. This fund now amounts to more than half a million dollars. It was also suggested that the fund might be used in event of the first plan proving impracticable, to employ enough additional instructors and professors to provide separate classes for the men and women students...
...philosopher decides that everything is wrong with the popular attitude toward pragmatism and he must employ the special talents which indubitably are his to make it clear how categorical imperatives condition each subliminal phase of the spiritual unemployment problem. So he establishes a Board for the Reconciliation of Internal Antagonisms and the Mediation and Arbitration of Spiritual Strikes...
...city wherein they may be sojourning rather than to the clerk of the country. The clerks of counties and of cities of over 30,000 population in which numerous applications from the sick and non-residents are expected are authorized to establish such sub-agencies and to employ and deputize such clerical forces as may be necessary to accommodate these applications...
...United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, which has thus been thrust upon the United States, is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States...