Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of the Budget lies its ultimate success or failure. The actual men who are engaged in carrying this out will be in such direct contact with the conditions and obstacles involved that they must to a considerable degree be allowed latitude in the procedure which they may employ. This committee has certain very definite recommendations, based on the experience of similar drives in past years and upon the experience of other colleges with a Budget, which are enumerated below...
...planned to employ this annual sum in the immediate future principally to improve teaching salaries all along the line, and also to help pay for the costly but valuable tutorial system, which will probably go down in Harvard history as the most important contribution to American education made by President Lowell's administration. But nobody knows how long it will be necessary to add to teachers' salaries or how long it will take to develop the tutorial system...
Last week, doddering old General Adolph Messimy (in 1914 Minister of War) created a sensation by calmly announcing that he, not M. Malvy, was the lover of Mata Hari. He said: "During many months, she, by all the means of seduction she knew how to employ in incomparable fashion, tried to acquire the right to call herself my mistress. I found her charming, but full of mystery, enticing, disquieting. I had the imprudence not only to tell her that but to write...
Died. Mme. Krao Farini, 49, famed "Siamese Missing Link, for 30 years a strange hairy freak in the employ of numerous circuses; in Manhattan, of asthma and influenza, while employed by the combined Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circuses...
...delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks to indicate the comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could not be otherwise indicated without many wasted...