"Length of service" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The corporal is the squad leader, and when absent is replaced by a designated private. If no private is designated, the senior in length of service acts as leader. ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss
... He excelled in the felicitous eulogies which he was called upon to deliver over departed associates. "The shaft of Death, Mr. President," said he on one of these occasions, "has been buried in this Chamber of late with fearful frequency, sparing neither eminence nor usefulness nor length of service. No one can predict where it will next strike, whose seat will next be vacated. With our faces to the setting sun, we tread the declining path of life, and the shadows lengthen and darken behind us. The good, ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore
... sweet, Nor vain and foolish toys, His crowned, earthly joys, Is there no comfort then in love's defeat? Because he shall defer, For some short span of years all part in her, Submitting to forego The certain peace which happier lovers know; Because he shall be utterly disowned, Nor length of service bring Her least awakening: Foiled, frustrate and alone, misunderstood, discrowned, Is Love ...
— The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson • Ernest Dowson et al
... obligation: This entry gives the required ages for voluntary or conscript military service and the length of service obligation. ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... in marvellous danger of capture Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared Promotion was granted according to length of service ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Court Memoirs of France • David Widger
... 2,000l. stock. It would also be a great encouragement to the officers, and secure prolonged service, to give them an annual increase of stock—say, 200l. to be added for every year's service. Thus, if a man did not get as early promotion as he expected, he would still benefit by length of service. ...
— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin
... is understood, however, that as a rule les comparses do not rise. They are the serfs of the stage, who never obtain manumission. They are as conscripts, from whose knapsacks the field-marshal's baton is almost invariably omitted. They become veterans, but their length of service receives no favourable recognition. Comparses they live, and comparses they die, or disappear, not apparently discontented with their doom, however. Meantime the figurant cherishes sanguine hopes that he may one day rise to a prominent position in the ballet, or that he may ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... In answer to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers to fight the South, he called for 100,000 to defend it. The rage for volunteering in the South was even greater than the North. An army of five hundred thousand men could have been enrolled for any length of service if arms and equipment could have been found. It was utterly impossible to arm and equip one hundred thousand, before the first ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... washed the breakfast things themselves; no length of service made it seem proper to trust the old blue china and the delicate glass to the servants. So Lois wiped her cups and saucers, and then, standing on a chair in the china-closet, put the dessert plates with the fine gilt pattern borders, which ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... required to give three and one-half hours a day, five days a week, to work in the schools, inclusive of traveling time between buildings. Nurses are paid on the schedule of the Visiting Nurses Association and salaries range from $60 to $80 depending upon length of service. The upper limit will probably be raised to $85 in the near future. Nurses are on duty from 8:30 to 4:30 every weekday except Saturday, when work ends at noon. Nurses are regularly employed only during the school year, but two are retained longer for ...
— Health Work in the Public Schools • Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres |
