Word: reappoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later reappoint-ing him, again against great pressure, he restored to the army the one favorite and familiar commander under whom it had the spirit to beat off Lee at Antietam...
...contemporaries at Harvard, thus creating a special class in the faculty (which would be out of accord with Harvard traditions) ; or else the policy outlined above had to be adopted. No one has had less than a year's notice of the University's intention not to reappoint...
...Fraser Gardner, indicted for perjury, filed a demurrer in Federal Court, claiming that because the Committee was nonexistent, he could not have committed perjury before it. Said Gardner: the Speaker forgot to reappoint the committee, although the House voted that it continue and gave it another...
...unwisdom of painting the devil all black. Dryden praised Achitophe the judge and Pope allowed Atticus true genius. Mr. Loewi shows a want of imagination, or at least of strategy, in claiming that the Department of Fine Arts was moved solely by personal vindictiveness in failing to reappoint Professor Feild...
...also upheld the statement of President Conant in response to the investigating committee when he refused to reappoint the two men when it said, "the Corporation is of the opinion that it would be both unwise and impractical to follow the Committee's recommendations. We find no difficulty in accepting the judgment of the President and Fellows, in preference to that of the Committee, as to whether mistakes were made because of understandings among different departments of the University, whether President Conant's ruling in rgard to promotions was ill-advised, etc. Decision on these and related subjects should...