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Word: superintendance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Frank T. Crowe, hard-rock engineer who will superintend the actual construction of Hoover Dam, opened a Six Companies office at Las Vegas, Nev., the rail junction for the job. Then he proceeded across the mountain wastes to Black Canyon. Before Superintendent Crowe could start actual dambuilding, he had to do these things: 1) complete the 20-mile railroad from Las Vegas to Black Canyon rim over which all material must be lowered. 2) Construct Boulder City to house 2,500 workers and their families. 3) Build an eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Damn Big Dam | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Freshmen to act in the capacity of a personnel director in a great business corporation. The advisers, the instructors, and the Assistant Deans are in closest-contact with the students. The need for a further administration officer is not to duplicate the work of these men but to superintend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN OF FRESHMEN | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...Association, two-time (1902-04, 1915-16) mayor of Batavia, N. Y. Dr. Burkhart, who has Mr. Eastman's unqualified trust, arranged the organization of the other two Eastman dental institutions-at London and Rome. He is to buy all their equipment, approve the appointments of their directors, superintend their regimen. Last week he sailed with his wife and stepdaughter to attend the dedication of London's Eastman Dental Clinic, perhaps also the groundbreaking for the Rome dispensary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eastman to Stockholm | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...though smaller than such post War leviathans as the French liner lie de France and Germany's Bremen and Europa) the British Royal Family is patriotically cooperating to secure maximum public notice. Thus Princess Mary announced herself "enchanted" last week, and next month Edward of Wales will superintend the launching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rule Britannia | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...Coast Guard's duty to superintend the seal-hunting of coastal Indian tribes, the Quillayute, the Makah of Neah Bay, Wash., and further north the Haida of Sitka, Alaska. No hunters except these Indians and other aborigines in whom the privilege is vested by the sealing treaty of 1911 between Japan, Great Britain, U. S. and Russia, are allowed to kill Pribilof seals while migrating. Indians are allowed to do so only in canoes, manned by five or less hunters, armed with spears or harpoons. Power boats and firearms are forbidden. Last year hunters killed about 2,000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Parade to Pribilof | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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