Word: employed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...told in an interesting article by Pierre Millet, his younger brother. With this paper is an engraving by Closson of Millet's painting "The Sheep-Shearers." At intervals for the last few years the Century has been calling attention to the neglect of the Yosemite Valley Commissioners to employ exact supervision in the care of the floor of the Valley. There is a long editorial review in this number of the situation with quotations from the official report of an agent of the Interior Department. It argues strongly in favor of receding the Valley to the nation. Washington Gladden...
...tribute to his work. The prospects for another year have never been so promising as they are today; we have obtained a firm grasp of the principles of football such as we have never had before, and we can have perfect confidence in the ability of Captain Waters to employ them to good results...
...should be enacted no matter what the results. But we should consider it rather, as a practical means to get at a definite end. The drink habit is the enemy, and it is the business of legislation to pick out suitable weapons, and means of attack, and then to employ them. It must necessarily have a partial, tentative effect, because the subject is one of ethics; because of the necessary effect every man must have on the whole social organism...
...Company is justifiable in employing Pinkerton detectives. - (a). Capital has a right to protect itself. (b). The property of the Co. was in immediate danger of destruction. (c). The Co. had reason to believe in the dilatoriness of the local authorities: N. Y. Herald, July 8, 1892. (d). The Pinkertons are engaged in a lawful occupation and are reliable and trustworthy: Nation, July 28, 1892, p. 60, also N. Y. Herald, July 23, 1892. (e). The legal right to employ them is undeniable: George Ticknor Curtis in No. Am. Review for Sept. (f). They were engaged for defense...
...short statement made in another column is significant as showing the breadth of the university and the variety of tasks it undertakes. When the university is obliged to employ a separate person to take charge of its publications, it means that apart from its ordinary duties of education, Harvard is carrying on an extensive system of publication. The number of magazines, monographs, pamphlets, and such, that are published every year at Harvard is something surprising. By this valuable contribution to the literature of education Harvard is lending a great impetus to the cause of learning...