Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Striking against Whom? Regardless of their semantics, the actions of Buffalo's teachers spoke for them: like it or not, they were on strike against their own city government and ultimately against the state. Most of the nation's editorial writers, recalling Calvin Coolidge and the Boston police strike, held that the strikers were in the wrong, even while many writers sympathized with their grievances. (According to the Federation, the average Buffalo teacher was going into the hole every year, had to borrow, or take a part-time job to make ends meet...
...policy of the Committee on Scholarships throughout the 12 year history of the "Nationals" has been to select outstanding graduates of secondary schools for these prizes, regardless of the financial capabilities of the scholar's family. Unquestionably the College has benefited greatly from this infusion of rich intellectual talent and leadership. At the same time it is vital to note that of these Scholars, some 20 percent were taken from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates...
...picking out texts now, nor has there ever been an entirely adequate one. Some courses have had their February lists in since October. Since the choice is no longer in many cases between a good book and a better book, but between a good book and whatever comes along, regardless of adequacy, the usual excuse has lost its validity...
...months New York City had been looking for a superintendent of schools. It was a prize job, the best-paid public school administrative post in the U.S.: $25,000 a year. The Board of Education declared itself ready to "shatter precedent in its effort to find the best man, regardless of geographic location or rank in service," to replace Superintendent John E. Wade, who must retire at 70 this summer...
Jaakko's decision to enter Harvey Thayer and Bob Toppan in the K of C dash indicates increasing confidence in their ability. Regardless of whether they come out on top, they should get a great deal of experience running against men like Herbie Thompson, Ed Conwall, Phil Barnhardt, and Frank Zeimetz...