Word: officialdom
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Princeton students, who take tests on a proctor-less honor system, felt obliged to report the trio. Brought before Nassau officialdom, the miscreants turned out to be editors of the Yale Daily News on an espionage mission...
...headed a staff of six military attaches including himself. Since then an American Minister, Karl Rankin, has taken over, a ruddy and genial man of stature and intelligence. In the seven weeks since he arrived, he has galvanized the listless diplomatic staff and earned the respect of Nationalist officialdom. Rear Admiral Harry Jarrett heads an enlarged staff of attach...
...release date on.Mac-Arthur's statement. State was taken aback. It did not know that MacArthur had made any statement on Formosa or anything else. Acheson telephoned the White House, which knew nothing about 'it either. Neither, as it turned out, did the Department of Defense. Washington officialdom went into a flap, trying to get hold of the text. But it was not until Saturday morning, by which time the Associated Press had calmly put the statement-marked "hold for release"-on its wires, that State officials caught up with a copy...
...education became a laboratory of endless experiment, an industry tuned to mass production, and an officialdom with more official channels than an army. The art of teaching became the science of pedagogy, with a technology and a labyrinthine language all its own. Yet out of the conflicting currents there began to emerge a pattern of sorts-a pattern of necessity, to cover not only the overflowing numbers of pupils, but all their varied talents, hopes and needs as well. What sort of pattern was it? This week, as many of the nation's educators met in Denver, the theories...
...from Leevey, its American overlord. Zizendorf lives in a boarding house run by Madame Stella Snow, who symbolizes the eternal Germany of ruthless energy and strength. Among the other boarders are a hungry duke, a relic of the Kaiser-ruled past; a drunken census taker who personifies perennial German officialdom ready to serve any master; Herr Stintz, the typical "little man" whose futility is expressed in nocturnal tuba-playing, and Jutta, Zizendorf's cowlike mistress, who wants only the warmth of love...