Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal interview before the meeting at which 500 students appeared, Barzun noted with interest the elimination of tutorial in several university departments, Barzun declared that tutorial work, or its equivalent, is a necessity for college men of Junior and Senior standing. He offered as "the equivalent alternative" a system of conferences and seminars where students could freely express themselves orally and in writing...
...current group of three Junior PBK electees are the first to be chosen since April of last year, which accounts in part, Sherman said, for the small PBK membership...
...take. The Jones men, given office space among the plaster busts in a storeroom back of a medieval gallery, set out to bombard press and public with good reasons for helping the Met build. Among the best: 1) Taylor's showmanship (no admission fees, a junior museum, subway ads, fresh paint), has boosted annual attendance from about 1,000,000 in 1939, to over 1,800,000; 2) the Met now has some 500,000 art objects-many of them gathering dust in underground storerooms-and only 325,811 sq. ft. of display space...
Foundations of Multiple Management are three elective employe bodies: a junior board of directors, a factory board, and a sales and advertising board. Their function is to feed ideas to the senior (stockholders') board. In a five-year period, 2,109 such ideas were adopted, among them the Olde English theme for advertising: only six were scrapped. This creative drive, President McCormick soberly believes, pulled his company out of the red, has kept it going ever since...
Never pleased himself with the way things were run while he was stockboy, salesman and export man, the new president set out to please everybody he could. Result: stockholders now purr happily over dividends increased 150% over 1932's, management turns sedate somersaults at sales figures, and junior board members chomp joyfully on a special slice of the profits (three weeks' pay in 1945). The loudest cheers naturally come from employes: their work-week is stable, well paid, shorter. Union organizers have long since decided that the McCormick lily neither wants nor needs their gilding...