Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet, and bids us look and see the fathomless depths of the unknowable above which we stand...
...revenue; but its peculiar and intimate relations with Chinese officials give it special opportunities, and a powerful influence in promoting the development and progress of China in a great variety of ways. At the head of the organization is the Inspector-General, who resides in Peking, with a staff of secretaries, interpreters, and clerks; and a Commissioner of Customs, with his staff of assistants, is stationed at each of the fourteen ports of foreign trade. The salaries of employes range from 900 to 6,000 taels (3 taels = pound 1 sterling). To attain the higher grades in the service...