Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wood-and-iron stock fall upon my left foot, crushing it. Though my supple feet and ankles constitute great assets to me in my escapes from fetters, piano boxes, safes and other receptacles, I risked swelling and infection, stayed on the stage, did other tricks. Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked him sharply, 'There is no such thing as a jinx.' An Albany newspaper said, 'There is a line worth writing in the copybooks . . . Only the sagbacks blame the jinx...
...automaton--not even the faculty member. And the real reason for the decline and fall of the Memorial Hall dining room is easily apprehended. In the first place, Memorial Hall, when the dining room closed, was no longer central; in the second place, Memorial Hall had no adequately equipped staff of dieticians...
...heavy atmosphere. Whatever plans are made must include central locations, attractive buildings or rooms. Then, as has been seen, the University, though it hers at last raised the standards of the Freshman Halls tends toward a poor, often purely stupid system of dietetics. Instead of having a capable staff here at Harvard whose training and experience alike fit them for the function of superintending the University dining halls, there is at best a group of former or potential hotel managers and chefs, decidedly of the old school. There are certainly enough skilled at this kind of work...
...code of statutes for the Islands; he acted for the U. S. in the internation dispute over the Boxer Rebellion; he (not President Roosevelt as is popularly thought) had the biggest role in the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902; he reorganized the Army, creating a general staff and chief of staff; he smoothed out the Alaskan boundary dispute with Great Britain...
...First Reichswehr Division, was appointed to succeed General von Seeckt as Chief of the Army Command. Since the new Chef is not a full general he is outranked by the generals commanding the two German army corps. Thus the proud title of General von Seeckt, amounting to "Chief of Staff" (ever a bugaboo to the Allies), has been placed ingeniously in abeyance. The new Chef will serve merely as an adviser to Defense Minister Gessler...