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  • He shook hands with them and then everybody sat down on chairs, and a gentleman in spectacles – they found afterwards that he was the District Superintendent – began quite a long speech – very clever indeed.   (source)
  • 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)
  • Mrs. Gates then went on to introduce about twenty people: the Commissioner of This, the Coordinator of That, the Superintendent of Something.†   (source)
  • We're in talks with the superintendent's office in Lebanon, to see if we can use one of their empty schools.†   (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)
  • Finally I got the apartment superintendent on the phone.†   (source)
  • "He's the chief superintendent of police," said Kate.†   (source)
  • The student filed a lawsuit against him, and his termination was recommended by the Jefferson Parish School District superintendent.†   (source)
  • We want to speak to the superintendent!†   (source)
  • Xiao-cheng's father had been our District Superintendent.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I got warnings time and again, for "attitude" as the superintendent put it, but he tolerated me for want of a replacement.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me," Mother Lois said, suddenly rising to her feet, interrupting Superintendent Blossom midsentence.†   (source)
  • It's time we let the superintendent in on this bag of garbage, isn't it?†   (source)
  • And then the school board and the superintendent got involved.†   (source)
  • There's a nice safe in the superintendent's office.†   (source)
  • Mr. Greene really wanted the approval of the superintendent also, but decided he was too busy, so the vice-superintendent would suffice.†   (source)
  • To the detective superintendent's dismay, the statute of limitations eventually put an end to the matter.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • SANDMASTER: general superintendent of spice operations.†   (source)
  • No. When this neighborhood goes up they'll need superintendents to watch over things.†   (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)
  • Peg, knowing how upsetting this all is, the superintendent wants you to take the rest of the term off.†   (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)
  • 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 Afghanistan."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Like Erhart, the superintendent of the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station, all were prominent citizens of Garden City.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Suppose a customer had walked in then; or the Park Superintendent?†   (source)
  • THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT—a member of our congregation—is waiting on the platform in street clothes.†   (source)
  • Willie Upton, superintendent of public schools.†   (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)
  • Especially since her dad is the superintendent of the school district (which sort of makes him my mom's boss).†   (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)
  • It's 11:15 now; I'll get to Dolbert's apartment by noon and have the superintendent reach her at work.†   (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)
  • They were policemen, journalists, township superintendents, printers.†   (source)
  • The superintendent dragged out the asphalt-baking machines and slowly dried the course.†   (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)
  • She knew that the superintendent of the Ohio Division was no good and that he was a friend of James Taggart.†   (source)
  • The asylum superintendent's office had once been rather grand.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Major Thomas T. Eckert is the general superintendent of the Military Telegraph Corps.†   (source)
  • The mine superintendent's home, Cotton told them.†   (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)
  • I wish I could persuade him to take over here and run this place—kind of superintendent.†   (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)
  • And BMW's you want, when Firster's been selling us Harleys for years and his brother's the County Superintendent.†   (source)
  • The southern school superintendent is a kind of remote deity who breathes the purer air of Mount Parnassus.†   (source)
  • Shoot a picture, Mr. Superintendent.†   (source)
  • Look at Henry the Eight; this 'n 's a Sunday-school Superintendent to HIM.   (source)
  • I've heard it before—I heard the superintendent of the asylum Sunday school say it over once.   (source)
  • And Mrs. Superintendent Bell and Mrs. Rachel Lynde are going to make ice cream—think of it, Marilla—ICE CREAM!   (source)
  • I've heard your superintendent's statement.†   (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 superintendent told you we have no such rule.†   (source)
  • According to Harrison School superintendent Dr. A. Seymour, there is no rule against singing the anthem.†   (source)
  • I'm doing a story— I've already spoken with your superintendent, Dr. Seymour, and your principal, Dr. Doane—†   (source)
  • STEWART: I spoke to your superintendent, your principal, and your assistant principal, as well as Philip Malloy and his father.†   (source)
  • Not as long as I'm superintendent.†   (source)
  • Even though I am not yet a member of the board, I was able to meet with Superintendent Seymour—who has, I assure you, my deepest respect—and discuss in a calm, rational fashion what might be done.†   (source)
  • Superintendent of Schools†   (source)
  • The superintendent was a former submariner.†   (source)
  • Fine, said the Superintendent, just so you don't expect to get paid full-time.†   (source)
  • She can only get back in if the superintendent lets her, and you know what that means.†   (source)
  • John Cerna was the vice-superintendent, and he had previously taught some of my siblings.†   (source)
  • Dr. Joseph is our superintendent of schools here in St. Raphael Parish.†   (source)
  • Burnham ordered his construction superintendent, Dion Geraldine, to investigate.†   (source)
  • It was a letter from the superintendent of schools, a letter of congratulations.†   (source)
  • He was dragged down the hall to the superintendent's office.†   (source)
  • The superintendent said something about needing a permit, but Luke could be persuasive.†   (source)
  • The detective superintendent had had to look it up in an atlas.†   (source)
  • The superintendent, after a long and thoughtful deliberation, decided to listen to the teacher.†   (source)
  • The superintendent of schools made his annual visit, and we got our first load of wood for winter.†   (source)
  • I was devastated when Superintendent Blossom said he would recommend her expulsion.†   (source)
  • The assistant superintendent, a man named Richardson, seemed nervous as he readied the noose.†   (source)
  • Of course, the superintendent refused to come out of his office.†   (source)
  • The Superintendent, who managed the budget, said, "We can't pay him, you know."†   (source)
  • He sat hunched in a chair, with a guard watching him breathe, until the superintendent came in.†   (source)
  • The superintendent of the Naval Academy, a former submarine officer, sat down.†   (source)
  • He didn't run to the Superintendent's office.†   (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)
  • First we went to the superintendent's office.†   (source)
  • Then he thought, It's the Superintendent.†   (source)
  • He had thought the park Superintendent might show.†   (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)
  • The superintendent of the Colorado Division quit.†   (source)
  • I find the superintendent, who calls an ambulance.†   (source)
  • Thomas Ruttier, the superintendent of Plauen's Lutheran church, volunteered to act as a mediator.†   (source)
  • The county superintendent has suspended classes for everyone for the remainder of the day.†   (source)
  • The mechanic was tinkering with the motor; the superintendent watched.†   (source)
  • He should also tell Bublanski about Superintendent Gunnar Björck of the Security Police.†   (source)
  • It was the third time he had met Superintendent Nyström.†   (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)
  • None of the foremen was in sight, nor the superintendent, so the prisoners kept their firewood.†   (source)
  • "I just made five dollars off the county superintendent," he said, nearly grinning.†   (source)
  • The county superintendent would first have to approve it, and I can assure you he won't.†   (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)
  • And you, being the Coalwood superintendent's son, can probably get all the materials you need.†   (source)
  • "Okay," he said indifferently, "then let my mills superintendent buy it.†   (source)
  • A new general superintendent arrived a week later, a Mr. Bundini.†   (source)
  • The general superintendent came down off the porch and solemnly shook his hand.†   (source)
  • He picked up the telephone receiver and asked for his superintendent.†   (source)
  • You might be the mine superintendent, but you've got the common miner's disease.†   (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)
  • We lost our best engineers, superintendents, foremen and highest skilled workers.†   (source)
  • School Superintendent Seymour is very high on sports as a community bond.†   (source)
  • Now, I just spoke to your superintendent....†   (source)
  • STEWART: Your superintendent, Dr. Seymour, says there is no rule.†   (source)
  • The truth is it's our superintendent's doing.†   (source)
  • DR. DOANE: Well ...The superintendent's office put out a statement explaining the true situation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • — DR. JOSEPH WORKMAN, Medical Superintendent, Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto; Letter to "Henry," a young and troubled enquirer, 1866.†   (source)
  • Then she could go see the Superintendent of Schools and get her name put on the sub list for Castle Rock High.†   (source)
  • Excerpt from a letter dated June ninth from Principal Henry Grayle to Peter Philpott, Superintendent of Schools: ...and so I feel I can no longer continue in my present position, feeling, as I do, that such a tragedy might have been averted if I had only had more foresight.†   (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)
  • So at Greeley Wesleyan during the conference, I asked Phil Harris, our district superintendent, if I could have a few minutes to share.†   (source)
  • If somebody from the superintendent's office ever comes down here and sees that book, you'll be in real trouble.†   (source)
  • He borrowed Frode's Mercedes and drove through a snowy landscape to spend the afternoon with Detective Superintendent Morell.†   (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)
  • But this was Christmas morning, and even though the superintendent was one of her former pupils, Mrs. Granger decided to wait a day.†   (source)
  • Luke and I drove across into the city and Luke bullied the superintendent into opening up the apartment.†   (source)
  • Well, aside from the fact that I need to check with the superintendent, I'm not the one who's supposed to approve senior projects.†   (source)
  • I worried about that because I thought, "What if I get permission from the vice-superintendent and I go ahead with the project, but once the superintendent catches wind of it, he makes me stop?"†   (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)
  • That's what the school superintendent said to Mrs. Chatham, slapping a copy of the article onto her desk.†   (source)
  • But as it turned out-not that he was about to tell the superintendent this-he didn't much like himself, either.†   (source)
  • The next morning he went to police headquarters to brief the city's police superintendent on his mission.†   (source)
  • She had the urge to pick up the telephone and give the superintendent a call and straighten this out right away.†   (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)
  • THE WEEK AFTER the superintendent paid his visit to the school we got our first load of wood for winter.†   (source)
  • She didn't know how the superintendent and the principal expected everyone to act-and they would all be doing that: acting-because to feel anything real would be devastating.†   (source)
  • The superintendent assigned a detective to assist him, Detective ,john Schnooks, an old friend of Geyer's.†   (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)
  • The superintendent, Mr. Cerna, had been at a conference, and he left the other side of the state at five thirty a.m. just to make it back in time for my ten-fifteen presentation.†   (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)
  • He was now the superintendent.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Tuesday afternoon, School Superintendent Virgil Blossom called a meeting of the nine of us students and our folks.†   (source)
  • The superintendent started to talk about disciplinary action; how this could affect him in the event of a conviction, what few privileges were left to be taken away.†   (source)
  • With deep misgivings Olmsted had left the work in the care of his superintendent, Rudolf Ulrich, whom he had come to distrust.†   (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)
  • Knowing that it would be a tough decision for the vice-superintendent to make, I wanted to have all the blanks filled in before I proposed the project.†   (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)
  • Even if the Superintendent had allowed it, he could not have brought himself to stay at the band shell.†   (source)
  • I felt that by disrespecting Mother that way, the superintendent was disrespecting all of us seated in that room.†   (source)
  • This time it was the superintendent.†   (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)
  • However, the day after the school's superintendent declared her valedictorian, the principal announced that she was going to have to share the honors—he was appointing a covaledictorian who had a slightly lower GPA.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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