Directors

Examples

• The directors, before finally determining on the system of locomotion to be adopted, offered a premium of ￡500 for the best locomotive engine to run on that line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But the directors decided to try a passenger coach, and accordingly Stephenson built one. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is here that directors' meetings are sometimes held, and also where weighty matters are often discussed by Edison at conference with his closer associates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As it was, not only Edison, but all the company's directors, officers, and employees, were kept busy exhibiting and explaining the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I shall most certainly report this outrageous breach of ethics to the directors of the adjacent zoological garden. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The directors admit so indiscriminately. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The trade of a joint-stock company is always managed by a court of directors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Galloway, and other men prominent in city life, many of them stock-holders and directors; all interested in doing this educational work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So I got the directors to permit me to hire a man to run the station. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1829 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was completed, and the directors offered a prize of ￡500 for the best locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Rocket, indeed, more than fulfilled all the conditions required by the directors of the railway, who thereupon decided on employing locomotive engines for the traffic on the line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• One day one of the directors brought in three or four ladies to the works to see the new electric-light system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The directors of the railway were anxious to secure the best engine possible, and opened a general competition, naming certain conditions the engine must fulfil. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Oh, I'm precious glad I'm not one of the Directors now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I shall vote for referring the matter to the Directors and the Medical Board together. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But if you write, said I, I _must_ have your letters; and I _will_ have them: ten directors, twenty directresses, shall not keep them from me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I presume he is now off to report to the directors of the Zoo that one of their lions was at large last night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• When you drove home after the concert I called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank directors, with the result that you have seen. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Suitable directors to assist me I have no doubt of securing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Vanderbilt and the board of directors witnessed and took part in the tests. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His abilities greatly impressed Carnot, the most upright of the Directors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Vanderbilt and the other directors came in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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