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  • He had a long story to tell of his quarrel with the superintendent of his department,   (source)
    superintendent = someone who manages other people
  • They don't think nothing of pulling a shot-tower up by the roots, and belting a Sunday-school superintendent over the head with it—or any other man.   (source)
    superintendent = a person who directs and manages an organization
  • When my father heard this, he called the deputy superintendent, who asked him the same thing.†   (source)
  • The county superintendent of schools himself brought these books down here for our use and we must take extra-good care of them.†   (source)
  • I suppose that's decided by someone on the superintendent's staff."†   (source)
  • I thought about Rear Admiral Hill, the former superintendent of the Naval Academy, who served as the president of Valley Forge in my last three years of high school.†   (source)
  • The superintendent had given them the key-along with a deadline, Next Wednesday.†   (source)
  • The superintendent was so impressed.†   (source)
  • When the park Superintendent came around and asked about the kid, Grayson said it was his nephew come to visit for a while.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Gates then went on to introduce about twenty people: the Commissioner of This, the Coordinator of That, the Superintendent of Something.†   (source)
  • Xiao-cheng's father had been our District Superintendent.†   (source)
  • We want to speak to the superintendent!†   (source)
  • Finally I got the apartment superintendent on the phone.†   (source)
  • As it happens—with, perhaps, a little help from Mr. Nielsen, who may have mentioned something to the superintendent at a Rotary meeting—the Hemingford School is looking for a music teacher.†   (source)
  • The asylum superintendent's office had once been rather grand.†   (source)
  • I had thought I was doing rather well before, but when Carl Miguel, the C-Wing superintendent, told me in front of everyone what a great week I was having, I wanted to prove myself even more.†   (source)
  • First we went to the superintendent's office.†   (source)
  • Curtis worked as a superintendent in an apartment house in Manhattan and he and Minnie were well-off compared to most black folks who came up from the South, because they lived rent-jree.†   (source)
  • I got warnings time and again, for "attitude" as the superintendent put it, but he tolerated me for want of a replacement.†   (source)
  • "He's the chief superintendent of police," said Kate.†   (source)
  • As superintendent of the Union Stock Yards, Sherman ruled an empire of blood that employed 25,000 men, women, and children and each year slaughtered fourteen million animals.†   (source)
  • And then the school board and the superintendent got involved.†   (source)
  • The student filed a lawsuit against him, and his termination was recommended by the Jefferson Parish School District superintendent.†   (source)
  • The district would never have sought advertising, its deputy superintendent told the Houston Chronicle, "if it weren't for the acute need for funds."†   (source)
  • Now it was no more than the size of a knothole which a sidewalk superintendent might stoop to snoop through on an interesting piece of building construction.†   (source)
  • Superintendent of Schools†   (source)
  • SANDMASTER: general superintendent of spice operations.†   (source)
  • We checked out of the hotel early and drove over to the Greeley home of Phil and Betty Lou Harris, our close friends and also superintendents for the Wesleyan church district that includes all of Colorado and Nebraska.†   (source)
  • To the detective superintendent's dismay, the statute of limitations eventually put an end to the matter.†   (source)
  • Like Erhart, the superintendent of the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station, all were prominent citizens of Garden City.†   (source)
  • We're in talks with the superintendent's office in Lebanon, to see if we can use one of their empty schools.†   (source)
  • I promised the superintendent as well as the school board I'd personally be responsible for rooting out the violence that has plagued this school for years.†   (source)
  • They were policemen, journalists, township superintendents, printers.†   (source)
  • THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT--a member of our congregation--is waiting on the platform in street clothes.†   (source)
  • No. When this neighborhood goes up they'll need superintendents to watch over things.†   (source)
  • I have a meeting in the morning with my superintendents.†   (source)
  • She had hopes of telling their ages bluntly to the mill superintendent and having them refused.†   (source)
  • My dad, who had a lifelong habit of switching jobs almost every year, took a position as a construction superintendent rebuilding a beachfront hotel and casino.†   (source)
  • The lawyers showed that the man was not Mr. Jack Brown, the superintendent of the banana company, born in Prattville Alabama, but a harmless vendor of medicinal plants, born in Macondo and baptized there with the name of Dagoberto Fonseca.†   (source)
  • "There's a nice safe in the superintendent's office."†   (source)
  • the Park Superintendent†   (source)
  • The superintendent dragged out the asphalt-baking machines and slowly dried the course.†   (source)
  • Mr. Greene really wanted the approval of the superintendent also, but decided he was too busy, so the vice-superintendent would suffice.†   (source)
  • Adam's old coach, Steve Anderson—now the district's superintendent—began the dedication by recounting the speech he'd made to students just days after the attacks on September 11, 2001, and followed up with, "When I read those words in 2001, little did I know the price that America would have to pay in the War on Terrorism…. that one of Garland County's own sons would pay the ultimate price, that one of my boys, Adam Lee Brown, would sacrifice his own life in a faraway province in…†   (source)
  • Despite that fact that the man had a wife and five children stashed at his home in distant 'Pindi and a second wife tucked away in a rented house near the superintendent of police's office in Skardu, Changazi had spent the tourist season tucking into a smorgasbord of the female tourists and trekkers who were arriving in Skardu in ever greater numbers.†   (source)
  • One was a mimeographed sheet signed by an RCMP superintendent, authorizing Uncle to leave a Registered Area by truck for Vernon, where he was required to report to the local Registrar of Enemy Aliens, not later than the following day.†   (source)
  • Willie Upton, superintendent of public schools.†   (source)
  • She didn't know my mom was the one who had sent the School Superintendent a copy of every ruling against book banning in the U.S. She didn't know my mom cringed every time Mrs. Lincoln invited her to a Women's Auxiliary or DAR meeting.†   (source)
  • I strained to pick up the school superintendent's voice, as though to squeeze some security out of that slightly more familiar sound.†   (source)
  • With the permission of regional and district superintendents, and principals of schools, we tie into the moral and spiritual values program already in place in the schools.†   (source)
  • He'd awake from memories of hope and find himself right there, waiting for another superintendent to open up the gate, and he'd sneer at himself.†   (source)
  • The first snowstorm of the year (eight inches) that hit late on Thursday night should have canceled school, but all we got was an hour delay because the superintendent didn't care if we died fiery deaths in chain-reaction pileups.†   (source)
  • She knew that the superintendent of the Ohio Division was no good and that he was a friend of James Taggart.†   (source)
  • My father was superintendent of a tea and rubber plantation and each morning at 5 A.M. a drummer began his slow rhythmic beat, an alarm clock for all those who worked there.†   (source)
  • Along with entertaining the claims of Ellsworth and Green, the court would also be hearing the testimony of Dr. Richard R. Madden, the British Superintendent of Liberated Slaves in Havana and a self-appointed observer of the Cuban slave trade.†   (source)
  • Especially since her dad is the superintendent of the school district (which sort of makes him my mom's boss).†   (source)
  • It's 11:15 now; I'll get to Dolbert's apartment by noon and have the superintendent reach her at work.†   (source)
  • Major Thomas T. Eckert is the general superintendent of the Military Telegraph Corps.†   (source)
  • My developmental years also coincided with Pa's advancement in the oil fields as he progressed from roughneck, driller, and tool pusher to drilling superintendent for a series of small companies.†   (source)
  • The mine superintendent's home, Cotton told them.†   (source)
  • What has permitted this moment is a small crisis—a sign announcing no visitors, the mine closed for repairs, the Professor storming off with a cascade of apologies pouring from his lips, telling them to wait, declaring that his personal acquaintanceship with the superintendent will resolve this impasse.†   (source)
  • If the superintendent says, "Miss Brown, you're to teach from Whitley's Second Reader," I don't feel I have to give him an argument.†   (source)
  • The southern school superintendent is a kind of remote deity who breathes the purer air of Mount Parnassus.†   (source)
  • I wish I could persuade him to take over here and run this place--kind of superintendent.†   (source)
  • And BMW's you want, when Firster's been selling us Harleys for years and his brother's the County Superintendent.†   (source)
  • Shoot a picture, Mr. Superintendent.†   (source)
  • Look at Henry the Eight; this 'n 's a Sunday-school Superintendent to HIM.   (source)
  • The detective superintendent had had to look it up in an atlas.†   (source)
  • Dr. Joseph is our superintendent of schools here in St. Raphael Parish.†   (source)
  • She can only get back in if the superintendent lets her, and you know what that means.†   (source)
  • Burnham ordered his construction superintendent, Dion Geraldine, to investigate.†   (source)
  • The superintendent, after a long and thoughtful deliberation, decided to listen to the teacher.†   (source)
  • Fine, said the Superintendent, just so you don't expect to get paid full-time.†   (source)
  • It was a letter from the superintendent of schools, a letter of congratulations.†   (source)
  • The county superintendent has suspended classes for everyone for the remainder of the day.†   (source)
  • Thomas Ruttier, the superintendent of Plauen's Lutheran church, volunteered to act as a mediator.†   (source)
  • School Superintendent Seymour is very high on sports as a community bond.†   (source)
  • The superintendent said something about needing a permit, but Luke could be persuasive.†   (source)
  • "I just made five dollars off the county superintendent," he said, nearly grinning.†   (source)
  • Now, I just spoke to your superintendent….†   (source)
  • The Superintendent, who managed the budget, said, "We can't pay him, you know."†   (source)
  • I was devastated when Superintendent Blossom said he would recommend her expulsion.†   (source)
  • Of course, the superintendent refused to come out of his office.†   (source)
  • The superintendent of schools made his annual visit, and we got our first load of wood for winter.†   (source)
  • The assistant superintendent, a man named Richardson, seemed nervous as he readied the noose.†   (source)
  • On Monday, January 6, Minnijean and her parents met with Superintendent Blossom.†   (source)
  • The superintendent upheld Rameck's expulsion, and a final hearing was held.†   (source)
  • The superintendent didn't show up until Thursday.†   (source)
  • " He didn't run to the Superintendent's office.†   (source)
  • The county superintendent would first have to approve it, and I can assure you he won't.†   (source)
  • I've heard your superintendent's statement.†   (source)
  • STEWART: Your superintendent, Dr. Seymour, says there is no rule.†   (source)
  • Then he thought, It's the Superintendent.†   (source)
  • "And you, being the Coalwood superintendent's son, can probably get all the materials you need.†   (source)
  • A new general superintendent arrived a week later, a Mr. Bundini.†   (source)
  • He had thought the park Superintendent might show.†   (source)
  • MR. MALLOY: See, the superintendent says there's no such rule.†   (source)
  • Conversation between Dr. Albert Seymour and Dr. Gertrude Doane in the Superintendent's Office†   (source)
  • The general superintendent came down off the porch and solemnly shook his hand.†   (source)
  • You might be the mine superintendent, but you've got the common miner's disease.†   (source)
  • The truth is it's our superintendent's doing.†   (source)
  • The superintendent told you we have no such rule.†   (source)
  • The superintendent's office put out a statement explaining the true situation.†   (source)
  • It's time we let the superintendent in on this bag of garbage, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Superintendent Martensson was also present to report on what had happened at the crime scene.†   (source)
  • On the right, Detective Superintendent Otto Danielsson, the policeman who arrested him.†   (source)
  • He should also tell Bublanski about Superintendent Gunnar Björck of the Security Police.†   (source)
  • I find the superintendent, who calls an ambulance.†   (source)
  • The superintendent of the Colorado Division quit.†   (source)
  • The mechanic was tinkering with the motor; the superintendent watched.†   (source)
  • He was dragged down the hall to the superintendent's office.†   (source)
  • It was the third time he had met Superintendent Nyström.†   (source)
  • John Cerna was the vice-superintendent, and he had previously taught some of my siblings.†   (source)
  • The superintendent was a former submariner.†   (source)
  • When I knock on the door, nobody answers, and I resort to the superintendent again.†   (source)
  • The superintendent had come in and put the order down on his desk without a word.†   (source)
  • The superintendent of the Naval Academy, a former submarine officer, sat down.†   (source)
  • He sat hunched in a chair, with a guard watching him breathe, until the superintendent came in.†   (source)
  • None of the foremen was in sight, nor the superintendent, so the prisoners kept their firewood.†   (source)
  • I'll take care of the place," said the superintendent, as the doctor hurried out.†   (source)
  • But what shall I tell the superintendent, Tiurin?†   (source)
  • It's all over," said the superintendent, waving at the mills beyond the window.†   (source)
  • "Okay," he said indifferently, "then let my mills superintendent buy it.†   (source)
  • He picked up the telephone receiver and asked for his superintendent.†   (source)
  • His father was sending him to Montana as assistant superintendent of a d'Anconia mine.†   (source)
  • It's the post of Superintendent of the Ohio Division.†   (source)
  • I should bother with a division superintendent!†   (source)
  • He's the division superintendent at Silver Springs.†   (source)
  • I have a superintendent 77! in charge of it now, who used to be my best metallurgist in Chile.†   (source)
  • We lost our best engineers, superintendents, foremen and highest skilled workers.†   (source)
  • The superintendent told me I was exactly like any other teacher in the county.†   (source)
  • So I decided to go to the superintendent and ask about Yamacraw Island.†   (source)
  • Morgan Randel was the deputy superintendent in charge of administration and personnel.†   (source)
  • The powers of a superintendent are considerable.†   (source)
  • "Do you have written permission from the superintendent of schools?" she asked majestically.†   (source)
  • Bernie somehow talked the superintendent of Hampton County into letting him have the job.†   (source)
  • My friends had come to pressure the board and the superintendent.†   (source)
  • — DR. JOSEPH WORKMAN, Medical Superintendent, Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto; Letter to "Henry," a young and troubled enquirer, 1866.†   (source)
  • He was a big, good man with a soft baritone, who ruled with easy tact a choir of repressed soloists, and who had an unerring memory for the favorite hymns of District Superintendents.†   (source)
  • Permit me to say, that as an acquaintance of Dr. Binswanger, you would be most welcome to inspect the Institution of which I am the Superintendent, at any time.†   (source)
  • If somebody from the superintendent's office ever comes down here and sees that book, you'll be in real trouble."†   (source)
  • So at Greeley Wesleyan during the conference, I asked Phil Harris, our district superintendent, if I could have a few minutes to share.†   (source)
  • To Dr. Simon Jordan, M.D., Laburnum House, Loomisville, Massachusetts, The United States of America; from Dr. Joseph Workman, Medical Superintendent, The Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto, Canada West.†   (source)
  • He borrowed Frode's Mercedes and drove through a snowy landscape to spend the afternoon with Detective Superintendent Morell.†   (source)
  • Luke and I drove across into the city and Luke bullied the superintendent into opening up the apartment.†   (source)
  • During the trial, Sidney Nicholson — the McDonald's vice president who'd supervised the undercover operation, a former police officer in South Africa and former superintendent in London's Metropolitan Police — admitted in court that McDonald's had used its law enforcement connections to obtain information on Steel and Morris from Scotland Yard.†   (source)
  • But this was Christmas morning, and even though the superintendent was one of her former pupils, Mrs. Granger decided to wait a day.†   (source)
  • That's what the school superintendent said to Mrs. Chatham, slapping a copy of the article onto her desk.†   (source)
  • The next morning he went to police headquarters to brief the city's police superintendent on his mission.†   (source)
  • One of the chief problems facing the superintendent of a publicly funded institution such as this, is the tendency on the part of prison authorities to refer to us many troublesome criminals, among them atrocious murderers, burglars and thieves, who do not belong among the innocent and uncontaminated insane, simply to have them out of the prison.†   (source)
  • After that I was promoted to superintendent and moved to the Gävle police department for the rest of my career.†   (source)
  • THE WEEK AFTER the superintendent paid his visit to the school we got our first load of wood for winter.†   (source)
  • She had the urge to pick up the telephone and give the superintendent a call and straighten this out right away.†   (source)
  • But Blomkvist soon realised that he was more of a superintendent for all the buildings on Hedeby Island, and he also had responsibility for several buildings in Hedestad.†   (source)
  • Tuesday afternoon, School Superintendent Virgil Blossom called a meeting of the nine of us students and our folks.†   (source)
  • The superintendent assigned a detective to assist him, Detective ,john Schnooks, an old friend of Geyer's.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the superintendent, an assemblyman, and a state senator showed up and spoke to the crowd, but the students' requests weren't addressed specifically or seriously.†   (source)
  • When, as usual, the flower was delivered, he took off the wrapping paper and then picked up the telephone to call Detective Superintendent Morell who, when he retired, had moved to Lake Siljan in Dalarna.†   (source)
  • She did not look at Rameck, but spoke directly to the superintendent of Newark schools, the same man that Rameck and his friends had made demands of just a few weeks before.†   (source)
  • With deep misgivings Olmsted had left the work in the care of his superintendent, Rudolf Ulrich, whom he had come to distrust.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me," Mother Lois said, suddenly rising to her feet, interrupting Superintendent Blossom midsentence.†   (source)
  • And the state superintendent of schools had made a special trip to Westfield to learn why this little town had the most successful school lunch program in the state.†   (source)
  • The superintendent was a short, fat man with a large red face and a double chin, and he needed all his energy to get out of the car.†   (source)
  • Even if the Superintendent had allowed it, he could not have brought himself to stay at the band shell.†   (source)
  • This time it was the superintendent.†   (source)
  • He wrote to Olmsted's landscape superintendent, Rudolf Ulrich, "it seems to me you can now cut your force down one-half, and at the same time let very many expensive men go."†   (source)
  • I felt that by disrespecting Mother that way, the superintendent was disrespecting all of us seated in that room.†   (source)
  • Meetings—my life was filled with meetings, boring meetings with the white superintendent of schools, the school board, with Central High School officials, with NAACP officials.†   (source)
  • "The attempt to hold you in any degree responsible or censurable for the loss of life is an outrage," wrote Dion Geraldine, his construction superintendent at the fair.†   (source)
  • First, they stopped by the park office at the zoo, where Grayson told the Superintendent he just wanted to work part-time for a while, in the afternoons.†   (source)
  • I thought for a moment the superintendent was about to salute it, but he was either too tired or too lazy to raise his hand.†   (source)
  • After the general superintendent was through with me, I tried to bike out of town central, but Mr. Dubonnet caught me outside the union hall.†   (source)
  • School Superintendent Virgil Blossom testified for a long time about the details of the school board's plan for integration, which had taken two years and two hundred meetings to devise.†   (source)
  • After the Pledge of Allegiance in the yard and the recitation of Bible verses inside the church, I would send a student back outside to look out for the superintendent.†   (source)
  • In March Burnham ordered Dion Geraldine, his chief construction superintendent, to press the matter "with the utmost vigor and see that no delay occurs."†   (source)
  • On Monday, October 28, Mrs. Huckaby notified us in writing that we were to contact our parents to come to a meeting in School Superintendent Blossom's office, downtown, at 4:45 P.M. That last-minute request meant Mother Lois had to rush over from her teaching job in North Little Rock.†   (source)
  • When the Captain retired, my father, at the Captain's insistence, took over his position of mine superintendent.†   (source)
  • Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, unveiled a new device that made plates for printing books in Braille.†   (source)
  • "It was bad enough during the hot weather, when a south wind could blind the eyes of man and beast," wrote Rudolf Ulrich, Olmsted's landscape superintendent at the park, "but still worse during wet weather, the newly filled ground, which was still undrained, becoming soaked with water."†   (source)
  • The superintendent said five, but I insisted on six so all the boys in your pipe-bomb club could be in it.†   (source)
  • As we climbed the stairs with our parents to the meeting in Superintendent Blossom's office, we all had one thing on our minds—that school officials provide a concrete plan to stop the abuse by Central High's hard-core segregationist students.†   (source)
  • According to Harrison School superintendent Dr. A. Seymour, there is no rule against singing the anthem.†   (source)
  • Phone Conversation between Jennifer Stewart of the Manchester Record and Dr. Albert Seymour, Harrison School Superintendent†   (source)
  • THE temporary general superintendent sent down by the steel mill in Youngstown was a man named Fuller.†   (source)
  • The commission seemed to form new departments every day, each with a paid chief—Davis named a superintendent of sheep, for a salary that today would total about $60,000 a year—and each claiming some piece of jurisdiction that Burnham thought belonged to him.†   (source)
  • "All over its surroundings," reported Rudolf Ulrich, his landscape superintendent, "material of any kind and all descriptions was piled up and scattered in such profusion that only repeated and persistent pressure brought to bear upon the officials in charge could gain any headway in beginning the work; and, even then, improvements being well under way, no regard was paid to them.†   (source)
  • On an overlooking hill was the turreted mansion occupied by the company general superintendent, a man sent down by our owners in Ohio to keep an eye on their assets.†   (source)
  • Superintendent Seymour has us writing position papers, speaking to chamber of commerce groups …. the Rotary club.†   (source)
  • With the other boys still fanning smoke out the windows, I quickly explained to the new general superintendent about our rocket-building and what the alcohol was for.†   (source)
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