Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the College can set its house in order now and still be able to accommodate an increased enrollment in the next ten years. Endowment miracles have happened before in American education, and Harvard should now try to "make a miracle." It should expand and improve its physical facilities, recruit faculty members, and attempt to get the tremendous funds necessary to guarantee an unimpaired Harvard education for increased numbers of students...
...getting hired but of getting promoted. To that end, they urged Negroes to equip themselves for better jobs now open to them. Said RCA's David Sarnoff: "We have spent proportionately more time, effort and money seeking qualified Negro engineering graduates than we have had to spend to recruit young engineers in general . . . Negroes do not sufficiently seek technological careers...
...mouth as nonchalantly as though it were his pipe; he triumphs over every crisis by never knowing he is in one; he stands the Air Force on its ear by looking everyone guilelessly in the eye. So backwoods as not to know that a sergeant is a recruit's natural enemy, Will all but kills his own sergeant with kindness. He all but gives the Air Force psychiatrist ulcers through his unshatterable normality. In time he sets forth with one of the zaniest of crews on one of the most demented of flights. Only after that-and perhaps only...
When the non-Russian recruit enters the world of Conrad's professor, he is bound about with rules which at first seem incredibly naive. The details of conspiratsia involve the dimmest kind of drudgery. No thriller writer would condescend to invent a scene as clumsily conceived as the actual meeting of two spies in a Geneva street. One of them thus summarized his instructions from Moscow: "I was to be wearing a white scarf and to be holding in my right hand a leather belt. As the clock struck noon, I would be approached by a woman . . . holding...
...then into air conditioners, refrigerators and home freezers, had discovered that it faced a choice. To survive in the cutthroat refrigeration line, it would have to change its operation radically, put in a complete set of appliances, expand out of the familiar farm market into the big urban markets, recruit a huge new dealer organization, then fight for a tremendous volume to make a profit. Said President McCaffrey: "We felt we'd rather take our efforts and our capital and invest them in things that are more nearly related to our main activity...