Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However efficiently the Inquirer's head count has been brought down, rival newsmen wonder privately if the paper has not spent good money to get rid of good men. But the Inquirer professes pleasure with the results. The resignations, said Stewart Hooker, director of personnel and labor relations, "have made a staff reduction of about the size we told the guild initially we felt we should have...
...planners have gotten rid of a lot of unnecessary costs and a great number of unneeded activities," he continued. Harris particularly favored the economy afforded by trimming staff personnel, courses, and departments. "Students will be paying $1000 for a $2000 education," he observed...
...buildings provide 20 four-man and 64 two-man suites, with a total of 113 single and 82 double bedrooms. John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, explained that no triples will be included because, "statistically, they are difficult to get rid of, and we already have them in McKinlock...
...future conversion of "doubling-up" is precluded by low ceiling heights, which rule out the possibility of installing bunk beds. Conway said that the room arrangements should "ease the problem of living out, since they "provide a miximum of privacy" and "get rid of the noisy entries...
Discussing his visit to the Soviet Union last summer, Billington noted that one of the chief aims of leading scientists and technicians "is to get rid of the dreary, somber, Moscovite style of architecture." This is not a mere detail, he explained, but the only way "they can assert the value of human considerations...