Word: hired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most of my popular slang phrases and sayings originated in San Francisco. The once over, ' 23,' run out powder, hire a hall, jitney, flivver, Larry turn the crank, get your goat, where d'ye get that stuff, and hundreds of others came from there...
Chancellor Emeritus James R. Day of Syracuse University is dead. And with his death, endowed education (what The New York Call describes as "The Hire Learning"), is advanced to the center of the stage again. John D. Archbold, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company, was a generous benefactor of Syracuse. Chancellor Day of Syracuse was a vigorous and outspoken champion of the established " interests." It needed only a little mathematics to prove that Chancellor Day had been bought by "The Trusts"-so said the progressives...
...events that have occurred within less than a quarter of a century will prove this. When the war with Spain came we had not real auxiliary support for the navy. In order to carry his fuel and other supplies into Manila Bay, Admiral Dewey was compelled to hire British vessels. He chartered the Nanshan and the Zafiro, two British colliers, for that purpose. Suppose Great Britain had then been at war? It just so happened that these vessels were available in Pacific waters. And what was the situation on the Atlantic...
Seniors who have neglected to purchase caps and gowns may hire them at the Cooperative Society for $2.75. No Senior will be allowed to take part in the Class Day Exerciscs unless he is provided with a cap and gown. 1922 Class Day Committee
...faculty meetings, examinations, and pestiferous students. No Carnegie pension lulls him into cheap security and carries him gently downward to the serene futility of a retired Indian civil servant. He can teach in the great forum of the wide world, and as a laborer he is worthy of his hire. Why, then, should the teacher burden himself with academic routine and with slavery to adolescence when he has a thousand other avenues open to his talents? Somnia Vana in The Freeman...