Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well, has there been any poetry lately? . . . "Belasco could recruit a troupe from our groups-Borah, the hero; Jim Reed, the villain; and Blanton, the mob scene! . . . "The press gallery often catches and transmits the noisy nothings at the discomfiture of the aggregate wisdom. Those journals, sniffing for human interest effluvia, prefer parliamentary riots and such outbreaks as the Battle...
...League investigators are right in believing that: 1) An international traffic in women (with and without their consent) is steadily carried on through smoothly organized and richly financed channels; 2) The prevailing demand for French women makes that country a leading source of supply but also causes many women recruited from Eastern Europe to declare falsely that they are French; 3) The chief regions of demand are Egypt and South America; and the leading cities of consumption are Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro; 4) The chief European port through which "white slaves" pass is Marseille, France; but Lisbon...
...second game, the recruit George William Pipgrass of New York outpitched the veteran Victor Aldridge of Pittsburgh by such a wide margin that Pittsburgh had little chance to win. Even here, however, Pittsburgh errors helped the Yankees in their two scoring innings, Outfielder Lloyd Waner duplicating his brother's first game error in the third inning, and Pitcher Aldridge making a wild pitch in the eighth. ¶ Errors apparently could have played no part in the outcome of the third game, which the Yankees won 8-1. Pitcher Herbert Pennock permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until...
...friends whom lonely Lawyer Harris called to him were Sylvester Schiele, coal; Gustavus Loehr, mining; Harry Ruggles, printing. They sat long and late comparing notes, exchanging experiences. Then they invited 15 or 20 men, each from a different profession to minimize "shop talk," broaden the conversation and recruit "a further idea or a dynamic force...
TIME quoted Dr. Angell indirectly as follows: Menace, Higher education is now gravely menaced because it is almost impossible to recruit men of first-rate intellectual ability for college faculties.?Dr. James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University.?ED. Dr. Gehring's Sanitorium...