Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death Valley's crowning treachery, the mirage. And yet, last week, there was a lake in California's subsea level inferno. One Perry Brite, Kerr County supervisor, stood on Dante's Lookout and saw that 50 miles of the sink had become covered with water. In the memory of none of the inhabitants of the Valley region had so much rain fallen or so much seepage accumulated from distant snows. When the waters disappear the length...
...Shanghai despatch to the effect that Admiral Shiosawa had committed hara-kiri in shame. He had not. Rear Admiral Shiosawa remained in official command of the First Fleet, stationed at Shanghai, but Vice Admiral Nomura, higher ranking officer, arrived from Sasebo Naval Base as a sort of supervisor. Pleasant grey-haired Admiral Nomura, with many a friend in the U. S., looks startlingly Nordic. During the War he was Japanese naval attache at Washington. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to the Washington Arms Conference, and he brought a Japanese squadron to New York in 1929. His arrival...
...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...
...tradition as famed as that of the absent-minded professor. But frumps and dowds are not admired by present-day school teachers; "schoolmarm" is a fighting word. For anti-frumps there was sprightly reading last week in the sedate Journal of the National Education Association. Mrs. Lillian Gray, assistant supervisor of State Teachers College at Santa Barbara, Calif., had called together her teachers and posed the question: How can a teacher improve her personal appearance? Upon their replies she based an outline for the Journal. null to demonstrate what a chic abecedarian looks like, Mrs. Gray donned a smart brown...
Diligent Mr. Barnes pried out of other students that Mrs. Stalin's ambition is to be named supervisor of an artificial silk factory. Specializing in the chemistry of synthetic silk, she has studied two years, completes her course this year...