Word: argus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them with Liberalism. Example: Joseph Cotton...
...Argus was a mythological monster who never missed a trick, for some of his 100 eyes were always ajar. Considering that such a creature might well have been the pure prototype of the modern international journalist, Vladimir Poliakoff took "Argus" as a pen name in 1924, when he wrote an article for the British Fortnightly Review. By a mistake the printer made it "Augur." The accidental pseudonym served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring...
...about anti-Japanese quotas for the Dominions, but ardently she hoped that they would follow suit. Because the British Dominions supply much of the raw materials on which Japanese industrial economy is dependent, they appeared none too eager last week to crimp their own exports. In Australia the Melbourne Argus (which last week won a University of Missouri School of Journalism honor medal, see p. 22) put it bluntly: "Australia has no complaint against Japan who is a good customer for her wheat and wool. Australia, as is natural from her geographical position, has found good markets...
...haired "Dean" Williams, 69, famed as "the university president who never went to college," was bed ridden at home. He made his speech of welcome over a special radio hookup. The customary five medals of honor for distinguished journalistic service were presented by the school to: The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, for being ". . . fair and tolerant, liberal . . . accurate . . . generous and kindly . . . progressive without losing touch with the past . . . eminent in Australia and throughout the English-speaking world." The Des Moines Register and Tribune for ". . . artistic and readable typography . . . sound and socially constructive service . . . journalistic enterprise and vigor." The Churchman...
...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...