Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total expenditure of $423,000 went to maintain a large, year-round staff at Stillman. Ninety percent of the time, more than half of Stillman's beds are empty, and seldom is the whole staff busy. As the committee points out, the large staff is a worthwhile form of insurance against epidemics that should not be given up. But the Hygiene Department has given no conclusive reasons why the permanent staff at Stillman could not be reduced, while Med School internes filled in during the rare emergencies. Chicago and Pennsylvania have managed to slice the costs of health protection...
Each applicant fills out a detailed form explaining his special talents, his free hours, his employment preferences, and sundry other details. Then Holt calls upon his store of contacts to find a hob that will fit the applicant's particular idiosyncrasies, or if none is forthcoming, files the application away until a suitable job shows...
...first appeal went out for the necessary million dollars. But to the surprise of the committee which had volunteered to raise the money, the request was greeted by vigorous objection to the form the memorial was to take. Perhaps the general disilusion over the gains of the war or a more realistic approach to its causes brought harsh criticism from all sides as to the suitability of a church to remember those who died for distinctly non-religious reasons. Some cried that such a proposal was not utilitarian enough; others called it too utilitarian. One influential group found it completely...
Died. James Herbert Wilkerson 78 famed racket-busting federal judge, who sentenced Al Capone to prison in 1931; in Chicago. Judge Wilkerson also tried Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Racing Form Publisher Moe Annenberg...
Much of the fourth volume of Osbert Sitwell's "biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply...