Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sikhism is the world's newest great religion; is, in many respects, the world's purest. Its locale is Northwestern India (Punjab, etc.) and its personnel, about 2,000,000-a sturdy, rugged, effectual type not found elsewhere in the Indian Empire...
...personnel of the first two groups in the Rank List, as made up on the basis of mid-year grades, proves beyond dispute the fact that the great majority of the highest ranking students confine their attention to their studies to the exclusion of extra-curriculum activities...
...immediately obvious that when Dr. Wilbur says "university", he really means "college", for even a superficial examination of the personnel of Eastern graduate schools must show that their students are drawn not from one state or one class of society, but from all over the world; and that this cosmopolitanism must reflect itself in the thought of any given institution. There can hardly be any such thing as a single type of mentality...
...With its American tradition of long-term conductors it is bound to take a little time to give itself up entirely to a new spirit; but if it is fortunate enough to retain Koussevitzky for another year or two, and will make a few obviously necessary changes in its personnel, it will become a marvelous instrument. It is already a remarkable one. The New York Symphony Orchestra I heard only two or three times; it has apparently become so part and parcel of Mr. Damrosch that it is difficult for an outsider to estimate it purely and simply...
...choose the Republican personnel which will serve on Committees of the next Congress...