Word: supervisoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominal subject was history, but I just couldn't bear history. After one term of it, I went to see my supervisor, a young and very, very understanding man, Frank Salter, and said that I couldn't go on reading history even with him. I must find something that was better for me. He was totally sympathetic, and said, 'That being the case, you must come to lunch Tuesday.'..." --From an interview with I.A. Richards, critic, poet, philosopher, playwright, educator, and chief promoter of Basic English...
...September 1, after a project resident was assaulted, four private security guards hired by the Cambridge Housing Authority left their jobs for two days. The guards' supervisor, quoted in The Cambridge Chronicle, said, "It looked like there was a riot coming, and I thought it would cool off the situation if our men left...
...Library construction began on June 18, the day following Commencement. The most annoying aspect of the Pusey work will be blasting to remove rock from the bottom layers of the excavation. Blasting will begin in August, and should be finished by late September, around registration time, Bob Burbank, project supervisor for Buildings and Grounds, predicted...
...blasting scheduled to begin August 1 to prepare the foundations of the Pusey Library will probably be delayed until mid-August, the Building and Grounds Department's project supervisor for the library said yesterday...
Robert Burbank, the supervisor, said the blasting will disrupt the surrounding area. "If you are in an adjacent building with the windows open you aren't going to talk on the phone," he said. "And with the windows closed, you won't talk to anyone in the same room". He explained that the noise will probably be audible on Oxford Street, quite apparent in the Yard, and very disturbing to people in adjacent buildings...