Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest will close on August 7, when reading of the plays will stop. Mr. Raftery of the Telegraph says: "It should be something for the playwright to know that his or her play will be at least read and appraised. Many successful producers do not even employ a play reader. Their desks (many of them) are piled with dust-covered manuscripts that have never been read." It is the purpose of the contest to form a clearing house for neglected scripts...
...bright future for college men who enter them. This has been especially true since the war, when the chemical side of all industries received much impetus. Such enormous industries as oil, electrical appliances, steel, dye, textile, meat packing, and others find it necessary to maintain great laboratories and to employ chemists. The chemical and drug industries themselves employ chemists in even greater numbers...
Walter Prichard Eaton, it is said, may be summoned to Harvard to staunch the wound made by Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour...
...recent years a "leisure class" has begun to emerge, and it exhibits all the usual characteristics. Especially on the Atlantic seaboard, where contact with Europe is continual, the grandchildren of men who made money are already beginning elaborately to forget how it was made, are beginning to employ as much unnecessary labour as possible, because it is expensive, and to change their fashions as often as costumiers can invent new ones, because to wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs...
...Trusts is an important course in a law school curriculum. It must not be confused with the popular designation of industrial combinations. It deals with the legal relations arising from holding property under an obligation to employ it as directed by the person from whom it was received...