Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday, Amherst's entering freshman class of 325, 75 above the usual number, had forced the college to hire several new instructors and make arrangements for doubling up in fraternity living spaces. Assistant Director of Admissions John C. Esty, Jr. predicted, however, that 15 or 20 would make last minute withdrawals...
Marker based his play on the unlikely but promising proposition that husband and wife should simultaneously hire assassins to kill each other. Some amusing lines ensue as the two murderers, male and female, meet in a dark apartment, and as Mr. and Mrs. Price subsequently discover their own respective plots. It seemed unfortunate, however, that the author declined to bring all four of his eccentric characters onstage at one time. With a little imagination this could have resulted in a wonderfully riotous scene instead of the slow fizzle with which the play...
More-or Nothing? In 1951 the Supreme Court split 4 to 4 on a similar loyalty case. In the Peters case, the Government claimed the right to hire or fire anyone it pleases as a simple management function. Peters' counsel granted the Government's right to hire or fire, but declared: "The loyalty program is a process of trial and condemnation and is not an exercise of the managerial power...
Councillor Charles Watson has asked the Council to hire an official U.S. census taker to check the new city figures...
...find the teachers whose interests and skills coincide with elementary language courses, the University must go outside the ranks of graduate students. Using the most effective and enthusiastic high school language teachers as a standard, the College should hire permanent language instructors, who would teach the beginning and intermediate sections of German, French and Spanish. Graduate students and regular research men could continue to teach the literary courses at the upper levels, where their special interests and insights would continue to lend color to their teaching...