Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday night game (as offensive to "religious people"), and the Chandler project (disowned by the owners) to hire Public Relations Expert Steve Hannagan for $50,000, plus $150,000 in expense money, to "publicize" baseball's golden jubilee next year...
...Planned to hire 218,293 more civilians in the Defense Department, more than making up for the 171,000 employees lopped off by Economizer Louis Johnson when he was Secretary of Defense...
...Cancro Joyned." Astronomy helped Princeton Dean Robert K. Root settle one matter that had long tantalized Chaucerians: the date of Chaucer's Troilus and Crlseyde. Dean Root was struck by the passage: "The bente moone with hire homes pale,†Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were . . ." No astronomer, Dean Root suspected that such a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon was no common occurrence. He was right: for the first time in 600 years, the planets had come together in the sign of Cancer in 1385. That, concluded Root, to the general applause of Chaucerians...
Ross knows what he'll lose if he starts swinging. He would have to hire a Radcliffe stringer not accredited by the Press Board. "The situation has never arisen," says Miss Projansky. "That would have to be dealt with by the college. The girl wouldn't have our inside news sources. We probably wouldn't give her any releases...
...changes in Widener will be the only major ones in the library system for the time being. Houghton Library will hire three men to take the place of its regular employees on Saturday mornings, and thus will be able to maintain its normal hours. Lamont's staff will also be augmented in order to offset the decreased work week...