Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...riot, and threats are usually a sign of weakness. In order to "see ourselves as others see us" we have to look through the highly-colored glasses of the press: and so long as the methods of discipline used by university authorities are those which a school teacher might employ, there is every encouragement to the press to consider most American colleges as "juvenile", and their inhabitants as "fantastic, megaphonic, and acrobatic...
...circles is Alfred C. Bedford, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Like; Pratt, the moving spirit of the oil industry is a Brooklynite. He is 59 years old, and was educated in Brooklyn and Europe. He has been in the employ of the Standard Oil since 1882. In 1907 he became a director of the dominant New Jersey Company, of which he has been President since 1916. During the war he was Chairman of the National Petroleum War Service Committee, and in 1919 Chairman of the International Trade Conference in America, organized...
...reality, the battle is only half won by even the most thorough understanding of an assignment, for the modern curriculum is essentially scientific in nature and demands the employment of an accurate terminology. It would be absurd to describe a machine in terms of a zoological science, and it is often equally absurd to attempt to discuss even one of the so-called abstract sciences in terms of everyday conversation. The inability to use the peculiar vocabulary of the subject leads to a failure to speak convincingly with one who is more thoroughly acquainted with the topic at hand. Accuracy...
...present they have next to nothing to show for their work. They are taking from the Ruhr but one per cent of the amount which the Germans delivered in an equal length of time in 1922, for besides the cost of hiring the mine workers, they also have to employ one soldier to guard each worker...
...well and then surrenders to the difficulties of form, tangling the Swinburnian idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...