Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also suggested matching grants to help local schools recruit more mathematics science teachers, raise salaries and buy equipment, and finally to help the states strengthen the science and mathematics programs in their departments of education. Among the reasons for this request: "Studies indicate that only one out of three high school graduates has had a year of chemistry, only one out of four has taken a year of physics. There is a current shortage of more than 8,000 high school science teachers and yet-of the 5,000 graduates prepared to teach science last year-2,000 went into...
...Price Was Right. With a well coached team to help him, Wilt is happily proving that he is worth every penny of the expensive energy that was required to recruit him.* Even more improbable, life on the K.U. campus is proving every bit as pleasant as the recruiters promised. Business-administration major Chamberlain is having no trouble keeping up a B average; he is dean of pledges in Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, does a little disk-jockeying on a college radio station (KUOK), and still finds time to enjoy his own 50 albums of jazz and blues recordings...
They agreed, however, that the most pressing problem was to improve the level of science teaching and to recruit highly qualified students...
...pride, ambition, quixotic brilliance and genuine Irish patriotism, this theory is as likely as any other. Yet most of the details of Casement's attempt to win Irish independence were absurd. When he went to Germany (via the U.S.) early in World War I. to recruit an "Irish Brigade" of war prisoners to fight against the British, the men turned up their honest noses...
...purpose is to create public opinion, to recruit crusaders to preach our humane gospel, to oppose legislation such as this recent pound bill in Massachusetts. In-fighting and politicking...