Word: specializes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Interior Department investigators, was that the Park Service, short of real employes, was several months behind in its books. The dream camp was finally found, Mr. Burlew revealed modestly, when Reno Stitely, grown devil-may-care, put his imaginary men on actual rolls paid by the Interior Department. The special investigators who finally caught Reno Stitely told the committee that a proper audit had never been made of the Park Service and the immense Emergency Conservation Work funds. The Senators then got to what in most of their minds was the chief reason for the investigation: wiretapping...
This broad Victorian background on the state-of-the-nation and the world gave the part of the speech which Mr. Hirota devoted to China its special weight. Victorians had their devils, and Mr. Hirota did not conceal his horror at the fact that "members of the Communist International have penetrated all classes of the Chinese, destroying the social order of the country and endangering the stability of East Asia!" He found it "most lamentable . . . for the sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo...
...afraid that the plan has its drawbacks. For one thing, newspapermen as a class don't get leaves of absence. They either get fired or they take sick and die. For another thing, she has picked the wrong the kind of people to go to Harvard reporters, editorial writers, special writers. Obviously the people who could use a spell at Harvard are the publishers of papers, not the employees. Go into any newspaper office and you'll find it teeming with Harvard men, most of whom need not another term at Cambridge, but a dollar and a half...
Through a special system of selection, inexpensive and costly books were judged equally, and out of the fifty books more than half cost 42.50 or less. The books range in price from about sixty cents to about five hundred dollars...
Harvard should do everything it can to gain special rights for its undergraduates on local courses...