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Word: hirings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their shadow, even their mere presence is considered polluting by some caste Hindus. In some villages they must wait by the well, pot in hand, till a charitable upper-caste Hindu (standing at a careful distance) pours some water for them. Occasionally an Untouchable will gather enough money to hire an upper-caste villager to draw his water for him regularly. Caste Hindu employers sometimes wrap up the money to be paid Untouchable workers, drop the pay into their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Still It Goes On | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest 2.5, has doubled in the last two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hoosier Wheezer | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...hostess to the Vice President-elect was filled. Possibly spurred on by applications from eager ladies ("I didn't know whether they wanted to marry me or hire out to me"), Alben Berkley named his daughter, Mrs. Max Truitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...poll proves students think there is room for improvement, then Mr. Reynolds should hire an investigating body as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Food Problem II: Dirt Under the Carpet? | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

Even if the Adams House Dining Hall does hire half a dozen more employees than the College average, a slight drop in efficiency is certainly worth the great rise in meal quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Food Problem: I The Central Kitchen | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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