Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply President-elect Prestes, perfectly in the Latin tradition, showed how to employ the raging breast, the flowery metaphor and the torrential expletive while remaining perfectly correct and sleek: "Pan-Americanism, fruit of an ambitious dream! . . . one which only in idealism could be called excessive . . . Pan-Americanism . . . fought against the obstacles which were strewn in its way, triumphed over them even as faith and beauty must always triumph...
...placed side by side last week pictures of Allan Hoover, 23, and Fernando Prestes, 22 . These smart sons are as typical of their respective peoples as their able fathers. Son Allan, graduate of Stanford University, is taking the course at Harvard Business School, must spend this summer in the employ of a real business (American Radiator Co.) to see such things as budgeting and accounting in practical operation. Son Fernando, graduate of the University of Brazil, spent his college vacations mostly in Europe, pleasure bent. At home he is rated an excellent horseman, tennis player, yachtsman, ladies...
...first U. S. policewoman. Mrs. Alice S. Wells of Los Angeles, first (1915) president of the International Association of Policewomen, thinks she was the first. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle of Washington, president since 1919, ignores the kudos of such priority. Last week she insisted that more communities employ women to deal with arrested women and children below eleven. She would have policewomen take over the work and duties of the Traveler's Aid Society...
...wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity to European standards, the new geometric style of Frank Lloyd Wright was deemed "mad" if not vulgar, and quite beneath notice. Architect Wright did not worry. He found plenty of Midwesterners either new-rich or bold enough...
...sufficiently pressing to curtail her college career. It is true the Committee on Admission has attempted to prevent this situation by asking all candidates how long they intend to remain if they get in, but most candidates have long since learned the correct answer to this question and to employ it regardless of sincerity. --Vassar Miscellany News...