Word: furnishing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...obtaining a professional worker in one of these three ways, the Social Service Committee could alleviate its present problems and provide for its future needs. Only with such a worker can the Committee furnish its volunteers with the supervision they need to carry out an effective program in the community...
...Mephistopheles is Barrett, the manservant (Dick Bogarde). Barrett comes with the townhouse, helps furnish it, and regulates its life. He knows about decorating, about souffles, about art, about Tony. A fawning gentleman's gentleman, Bogarde's Barrett always has a mysterious half-smile; he is just a bit too eager. To Tony, Barrett's punctiliousness gives order to his days of boredom. To Barrett, Tony is a person to be manipulated, yet manipulated for what...
...prices of Snelling franchises range from $27,600 for a third of the Chicago area to $3,000 for Yuma, Ariz. In return, franchisers get a two-week training course at Philadelphia headquarters, together with manuals that explain such things as how to furnish a waiting room ("Do not buy small magazines, such as the Reader's Digest or National Geographic, since they quickly disappear"); how to arrange a desk drawer; and how to size up an applicant's "steak" (education, marital status, job history) and "sizzle" (personality, awards, hobbies) in a ten-minute interview. Franchisers clear...
...psychology; they provide the explanation by one knowledgeable, sensitive, and articulate observer for the inevitability of the suicide of one of the most celebrated international personalities of our time. Still, the truth is--though it may sound callous--that the raison d'etre of many people is to furnish fodder for works of art. A great work of art is often worth more than a human life. And it is not impossible that history will remember Marilyn Monroe chiefly through Miller's play...
...Goldwater pointed out, the actual facts and figures about missile reliability carry a secret classification. But the Scoreboard on test firings, generally carried out under the most favorable possible conditions, is public information and does furnish a reliability index...