Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connor, and the two gentlemen who were to do most of the work, Joseph 5 Buford, Chief Assayer of the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan and Dr. F. S. Holbrook of the Bureau of Standards in Washington. Finally, as required by law, the chief testee was on hand: Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the Mint...
...Residency. No royal and ruling Indian, not even His Exalted Highness, ever escapes a British Residency, an outpost of London which makes him feel the more or less iron hand of Britain in a less or more velvet glove. In his early days as Hyderabad's ruler the present Nizam dismissed the Diwan or acting cabinet and directed affairs as his own Prime Minister for some years with such vigor that "The Residency" was often rumored pressing for his abdication. Came the War. The Nizam's $100,000,000 gift to Britain squared many things, and Sir Akbar...
President Angell, however, has had no steadier right hand than Charles Seymour. In 1927 he became University Provost, chief link between Yale's faculty and administration. The first Yale bigwig to encourage the College plan, he helped supervise the building of the colleges, became master of one of them (Berkeley), was until this year chairman of the Council of Masters. His wife (Gladys Watkins of Scranton, Pa.), his 24-year-old son Charles Jr. (Yale 1935 ), now studying art in Paris, and his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, helped him to entertain Berkeley's boys...
...Louis, doctors insisted that Mayor Dickmann sign the ordinance in the interest of public health, though it would require practically all users of soft coal in St. Louis to install new kinds of furnaces. Coal dealers would be obliged to "wash" small-sized coal and hand-pick chunks to prevent sulphuric acid and other products of burning sulphur from getting into the atmosphere. Locomotives would be permitted to belch smoke in St. Louis only for six minutes in any hour while getting up steam in a roundhouse, only one minute while on open tracks...
Dean Plimpton and his associates are determined to provide as many useful services as they can. They are not, of course, able to hand out jobs on a silver platter to complacent seniors. Nor are they able to tell a man who suddenly decided that he "wants a job" exactly what it is he desires, although they spend many patient hours in the attempt...