Word: employs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from our purpose to deprecate the careful examination of such details of a language, or of its peculiar genius, but it does not seem that such study is necessary for a beginner in order to give him such working power with the language as to enable him to employ his acquirement outside of the recitation room. As to pronunciation, the less said the better; it is after all perhaps merely a matter of taste. But it certainly seems only fair to say that the methods employed in some of the German electives are far from accordance with the generally recognized...
...than true journalistic insight. The Philadelphia News is another paper that has a weekly department of college notes. The Boston papers of late years, it is well known, have been devoting much attention to college news and particularly to Harvard matters; several indeed find it worth their while to employ special college reporters. The Post publishes daily Harvard College notes; and the college articles of the Sunday Herald and Globe are already famous among their student readers...
...strike at the Pacific Mills yesterday was extended to all the cotton spinners. The strikers now number 450, and are firm in their refusal to resume work at the present rates. The Pacific Mills employ altogether 5500 persons, and have a property of about...
...What various clubs our leisure hours employ...
...screaming Tiger, going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the Ibis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie...