Word: inspectoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army, most of his life has been bound up in railways. His widely recognized administrative talents made him indispensible to war politics and his services were used throughout the War in a number of different capacities: Deputy Director-General Munitions Supply, Director-General of Military Railways and Inspector-General of Transportation, Member of the Imperial War Cabinet, First Lord of the Admiralty...
...score of cruisers and gunboats armed with soldiers, who have already landed at Shameen. This is the work of the diplomatic body at Peking, done at the instance of the British Minister on advice of the senior Consul at Canton, who is the British Consul General and the Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs, who is a British national." Mr. MacDonald was asked to bring the "grave situation" to the notice of the British people, "particularly the workers...
...Exploration in Maya Cities" was the subject of a lecture delivered in Pierce Hall last evening by Franz Blom, first year, graduate student in the Division of Anthropolgy and former inspector of archaeological monuments for the government of Mexico. Mr. Blom's lecture dealt with the recent discoveries which have been made in Yucatan and Central America, where many traces of ancient civilizations have been found. The lecture was illustrated by three reels of moving pictures, showing the ruins of the Maya cities of Chichen-itza, Uxmal, and Palenque. As an introduction Mr. Blom described the ancient inhabitants of these...
...foreman is to blame if he permits anyone to work in rooms with insufficient propping or to ride on trips of cars meant only to convey coal. If mines unsafe because of water trouble, poor roof, improper ventilation, and other such deficiencies, are permitted to be worked, the district inspector of mines is in this case at fault. If the owner himself does not see that his mine is decently inspected and that his men are competent, he is as much deserving of censure as his employees...
...seedling from the Washington Elm which was recently removed by city officials, is now among the elms growing in the College Yard, it was learned yesterday from Mr. W. S. Burke, inspector of University grounds and buildings. The seedling was given to the University in 1916 by Mr. Leonard W. Ross of the park department of the city of Boston, and it is now growing in the large plot of grass between the steps of Widener and University Hall...