Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a slangster cocks an eyebrow and rasps "Oh, yeah?" some people feel faintly bilious. But when a pundit uttered the phrase last week at the Milwaukee meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, he stirred his hearers to academic enthusiasm. The "yea" in the Bible, said Supervisor of English Max John Herzberg of Newark's public schools, is the "yeah" of today. Beowulf or any other early Briton would have pronounced it in the same manner if not with the same irritating inflection. Also, said Supervisor Herzberg, the use of "them" for "those" is no modern...
Cuba. Newspapers suddenly charged last week that a Major Arsenic Ortiz, former military supervisor of Oriente Province, and Lieut. Felipe Valle and Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...
...have just had a conference with William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics at Harvard, and Harry R. Heneage, Supervisor of Athletics at Dartmouth. Both Mr. Bingham and Mr. Heneage express to me their sincere regrets that the scheduling of the Stanford-Dartmouth game at the Harvard Stadium has created a situation which under any circumstances might prove embarrassing to Boston College. They both assured me that if the question of interference with the annual Holy Cross-Boston College game had occurred to them the matter would have been handled in a way which would have prevented the present unfortunate conflict...
...being executed by Prescott Winkley '31. The dancing is being coached by Paul Anderson, of the Lucille Perry Hall School. John Collier '22, is doing the main coaching of the show, and W. V. M. Fawcett '15, head of the graduate show committee is the general supervisor...
...Fleet; to be Superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.; succeeding Rear Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison. retiring. During the World War Admiral Hart commanded Submarine Divisions 4 and 5 in European waters, was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal. Since 1923 he has commanded the Mississippi, served as supervisor of New York Harbor, commanded the Submarine Divisions of the Battle Fleet. He became a Rear Admiral in October 1929, Commander of the Control Force...