Word: employ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History is no respecter of persons. . . . But to employ such material in publicly attacking a person's past life when he is engaged in high public duties and virtually powerless to defend himself, is unfair, unsportsmanlike and detrimental to the public interest. . . . The only purpose of the publication seems to be to provide profit to persons of unsavory reputation through satisfying morbid and idle curiosity...
...Author. Bernard Sobel is at present press agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed...
Would TIME'S editor kindly publish the rule for the use of the ampersand (&) in TIME'S text? Does TIME employ a printed style book and is it available to readers interested in both TIME and the printing...
Cash-on-hand is a pretty item on any balance sheet, but if it is not earning a fair return for stockholders they are apt to question the management, hint for a special dividend. Standard Oil of New Jersey announced last week it would employ $30,600,000 of its cash by calling one-quarter of its $120,000,000 bond issue. The bonds for retirement will be drawn by lot, paid off Feb. 1 at 102%. This is the second time the big oil company has used a large amount of cash from earnings to reduce its indebtedness...
...years' work instead of three. The Harvard faculty has come to stress more and more, in awarding honors, the work done in the Senior year, when students by means of theses and general examinations, have the opportunity to show how well they have digested, and how maturely they can employ, the facts acquired from their first three years' study in twelve or thirteen separate courses. If Phi Beta Kappa should join the University in withholding its judgment of students until as much evidence as possible is available, it would complete its century-long growth away from college social club...