Word: inspects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national winner) were set up to ensure that only the best reached the finish line. Fortnight ago three top jurists (British Critic Sir Herbert Read, former Director General of French Museums Georges Salles and British Painter Morris Kestelman) were flown to Manhattan, repaired to a storage warehouse to inspect the final 114 oils and pick the grand-prize winner. "It was very quiet," chuckled Georges Salles. "We sat in three chairs like the three judges of Hell...
Specifically, the Board must approve College appointments, degrees awarded, rule changes, and other important executive or administrative actions. Its chief function, however, is to inspect University departments and make recommendations through committee reports...
Even 'Cliffies will be welcome this evening at 7:30 when THE CRIMSON holds its first fall candidate meeting. Drinking free beer to the music of the AP tickertape, all those interested may talk to the editors, inspect the paper's independent printing facilities, and if they like, start competing for the Fourth Estate...
Ignored were urgent U.S. requests to inspect the C-130 wreckage and, more important, for information concerning the eleven airmen still unaccounted for. If the airmen were dead, the Soviets would have no reason to hide the fact. If they were alive, were the Russians holding them hostage? Or were they at large in the Armenian hills, attempting to avoid capture, hoping to make it back across the Turkish frontier...
...state. A determined man, he efficiently attacked the county's "wasteful, sprawling monstrosity incapable of rendering efficient and economical service." He streamlined the 35 old departments down to 17, economized to give the county its first tax reduction, from 17 to 15.9 mills. His countywide auto-inspection system made little profit but cut off easy revenue of hamlets retailing inspection stickers without spending money to inspect anything...