Word: scouring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunting had told a Holmes Hall audience Thursday of her directive to all personnel offices "to scour the Boston area for qualified Negroes to fill vacancies." The director of housekeeping at Radcliffe, Mrs. Dorothy S. McAndrews, confirmed that since President Bunting's letter was received any qualified Negro who applies for a job is hired...
Speaking before about 40 girls, she said that she has told all personnel offices to "scour the Boston area for qualified Negroes to fill vacancies...
...combination of Filene's Basement's pricing policy and its unceasing search for bargains, both of which were originated by Lincoln and Edward Filene, the famed brothers who made Filene's one of the world's largest specialty stores. Filene's 60 buyers scour the world, picking up surplus stock, irregular merchandise and going-out-of-business wares. Filene's is a haven for other merchants who are hit by fire or failure; its buyers will fly off even in the middle of the night to close a deal. It deals regularly with such...
...Common Market, underemployment becomes an advantage: Greece is the only Market member that offers surplus labor. Recruiters from the great companies of Western Europe scour whitewashed Greek villages for willing workers, and 100,000 Greeks are now working in West Germany alone. To keep the men at home but get them off the farm, Greece's economic policymakers are pushing through many business-priming laws...
...potatoes until last, usually accomplishes nothing except upset his mother's appetite. But the kid is right and his mother is wrong, says Dental Surgeon Howard R. Raper of Albuquerque. Sweets eaten at the beginning of the meal leave little sugar in the mouth, because later courses scour it away. And sugar remaining in mouth crevices promotes tooth decay...