Word: employment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual rowing style of Harvard crews goes, there is little these days to distinguish it from most competitors. This is because most eastern colleges now employ coaches trained at the University of Washington, if not actual alumni, who have at least profited mightily from the so-called Conibear-Washington technique...
...beverages to college students, female as well as male, is an acute problem in that area, as many of the students come from states where purchases may be made by anyone over 17. After arriving in Massachusetts, they feel that they are still governed by home state laws and employ a number of subterfuges to insure a steady liquor supply, he stated...
...nearly so well known is its 200-year-old sister society, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It rates the seaworthiness of the vessels that Lloyd's insures, keeps day-to-day tabs on 30,546 ships, and was the first to employ Ai to mean tops. (To get the rating, a ship's construction must be approved by Lloyd's surveyors...
...object to those who walk through the Yard or along the riverbank when they see hundreds of freshman, seraway and suffering from malnutrition, importuning every passerby for a sausage. These students, istead of being able to spend 16 to 18 hours a day on their work, are forced to employ all of their time in roaming Cambridge to beg for a pittance of flesh. Countries ago, in 1729, a similar food shortage gripped Ireland, and Joha than Swift offered a plausible and efficient solution. Unfortunately, civilization was not sufficiently advanced to recognize the wisdom of his plan...
...indefinitely with the same material, the same performers, and the same programs." But NBC was nonetheless glad to be keeping some of its own: Fibber McGee & Molly, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Bob Hope, "Duffy's Tavern." Trammell had also thrown together, he revealed, 30 fresh programs, which will employ such well-known stars as Cinemactors Charles Boyer, Rosalind Russell, Olivia de Havilland, Gary Grant and James Mason, as well as Comics Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Henry Morgan...