Word: employed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is one point on which Professor Morison must employ his most cautious tread. One of the loveliest sages of modern Harvard is that involving the selection of the Lowell House coat of arms, and Mr. Coolidge's perturbation when he was informed that his House sailed beneath a spinster's colors. Perhaps this is not so. But Professor Morison, whatever he may wreak upon windows or upon letterheads, ought not to profane it. Clearly it has that large glamor of the grotesque which comes only too infrequently and which is over to be cherished...
...Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...
This was to be expected. The case of Captain Armstrong two years ago, innumerable cases since, have shown that the Harvard student is in a position which renders him fair game at all seasons. Obviously he cannot employ buzzer systems and secretaries, armed mobsters, expensive "public relations counsels," or any of the other trappings which are the conventional first line against the gentlemen of the fourth estate. James Joyce, as he was entering a hospital to undergo an operation which would determine whether he should irrevocably lose his sight, was offered two hundred pounds by a reporter for an article...
Large allotments of the last month included $14,153,108 to re-employ 8,000 men making a 6-ft. channel in the Missouri River for 387 mi. from Kansas City up to Sioux City; $63,000,000 for a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River at Grand Coulee; $22,700,000 for a reclamation project near Casper, Wyo.; $11,500,000 for dredging a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi...
...most curious incident in history for a high official to employ his soldiers in cutting dikes to make a neighboring State inundated, thus rendering the slaughter of people an amusing pastime...