Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hornaday has himself been in Government employ. In 1874, he began to serve Henry A. Ward of Rochester, as a naturalist. A couple of years later, he went around the world gathering rare specimens of animal life. When he got back, he founded the Society of American Taxidermists. After eight years of this sort of apprenticeship, he became Chief Taxidermist of the National Museum in Washington. He has hunted for Science in India, the Malay Archipelago and South America. In Montana, he has collected buffaloes for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent...
...ensued, continued. Some twelve minutes later a doctor was bending anxiously above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little men belabor each other thought of another battle in which a champion who could box met a challenger who could hit, said: "The biggest thrill since Dempsey smacked Firpo...
...This is the headline scene. Strut! This is the big-act." Such a climax occurred one day last week in the career of an undersized gentleman who was perceived, at dawn, walking up and down the terrace of his villa at Beverly Hills, Calif. A medical man in his employ issued from the house and crossed the grass to the little fellow, making, as he came, expressive gestures. The other's face relaxed. He beamed, took the doctor's arm, crossed to the house with him at a skipping run. In an hour the world knew that a 6¾-pound...
...surrendered unarmed. Most of the foreigners had been evacuated to Hong-Kong. Those that remained in Shamien, the foreign settlement, were unmolested, but could see the wholesale murder, arson and rape committed by the blood-thirsty Kuo Mintang. No doubt remained but that they were in the employ of the Bolsheviki. U. S. and British ships were fired on. Anarchy prevailed...
Shanghai. Chinese workers in a Japanese cotton mill at Shanghai went on strike, as had their countrymen in Japanese employ at Tsingtao (TIME, June 8). Court proceedings against the ringleaders were taken, convictions obtained...