Word: employ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louisville, Kentucky, May 15.--The Louisville police tonight report the arrest of a short and stocky Oriental who answers to the name of Dr. Hu Flung Huey and who claims to be in the employ of the "Harvard Crimson." Dr. Huey was apprehended by jockeys and trainers when he was seen slinking around the paddocks of the famous Churchill Downs where the Kentucky Derby will be run off on Saturday...
...schools recognized by the American Association of Schools & Departments of Journalism, only five are not state colleges. Announced last week was the first endowment of journalistic lectures among the older Eastern private schools. Publisher Paul Block of the Brooklyn Standard Union* gave Yale $100,000 with which to employ a lecturer or lecturers to "establish a program of studies in the graduate and undergraduate schools to trace the relation of the newspaper Press to modern affairs. This plan does not contemplate the development of courses of a vocational nature, but it is expected to bring the students . . . to a clearer...
...making known this fact the authorities explained that the step had been taken only after a careful study of the provisions of the will of Major Henry Lee Higginson, donor of the Union. Opposition to the proposal so to employ the Union has been based on an expressed wish of Major Higginson's that the character of the Union as an undergraduate club be not changed. The authorities answer this objection by pointing out that the will permits of change in view of the mediocre success of the Union as it is at present organized. It is planned that...
...astonishing how hard it is for some minds to understand it. It took about ten years in the U. S., but it is now generally received as part of the practical science of business." Parenthetically Mr. Ford interjected: "It has been said that in England we employ only teetotalers. That is not true, but we insist on sobriety. We can only pay good wages to sober workmen...
Engineers added additional facts. The longest vehicular tunnel in the world at the present time is the 12-mile Simplon tunnel in Switzerland. With its approaches, the Channel Tunnel would be nearer 40 than 20 miles long. It should take about eight years to build, would employ about 7,000 British workmen...