Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet to employ the annual four hundred dollar scholarship for the benefit of the Grenfell Mission abandons one excellent policy only to fulfill another. In past years the Chairman of the Foreign Student Committee has been given the money with the understanding that upon his return from his summer travels he will help the foreign students here in the University. That plan, in their own words, has been overwhelmingly successful for the individuals who received the scholarship. But the second aspect, in spite of honest effort, has failed for the simple reason that...
...compelled Kurt Jooss to go touring, although his dancers still needed more training. The troupe gained grace and prestige with the addition of Hans Zuellig, 22-year-old Swiss (The Big City) and pretty Noelle de Mosa, 19, a Java-born Dutch baroness. Both conform to the Jooss type, employ the widest and most theatrical use of pantomime...
...first time since the Soviet Union was formed, Moscow last week felt strong enough to employ the technique of ultimatum to the Great Powers, threatening to act in aid of Spain's radical Madrid regime. Panicky rumors promptly spread that Soviet ships were being loaded with Red munitions in Black Sea ports last week, that creaking old Russian warships and roaring new Soviet seaplanes would convoy these transports into the Mediterranean, and that this time cautious Moscow was ready to risk a general...
...slurring significant facts, emphasizing irrelevant ones, most detective story writers employ the description of clues as a means of leading a reader astray. Last week an ingenious new type of detective fiction appeared. Honestly and simply, it presents the reader with all the clues in the order and in the fashion that the police uncover them, lets him form his own conclusions about the crime. File on Bolitho Blane is a collection of various objects found at the scene of a murder, together with telegrams, memoranda, stenographic reports of interviews with suspects, bound together in a bulky loose-leaf binding...
...slight power he had in 1933 has since vanished. Professor Sprague was an adviser with the stamp of Harvard too strongly upon him, and as a result was dropped from the New Deal wagon almost as soon as he had hitched a ride. If prominent New Deal agencies employ young lawyers from Harvard Law School, the corporation offices of New York are even more saturated with them...