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... temporary employment , and in certain offices - the higher commencing with reduction and ending with decimal fractions , given to candidates for permanent clerkships . The " test " does not extend the limits pre- viously assigned , but ...
... temporary employment , and in certain offices - the higher commencing with reduction and ending with decimal fractions , given to candidates for permanent clerkships . The " test " does not extend the limits pre- viously assigned , but ...
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... temporary " clerks , and in order to become " established " clerks they have to compete - five for a single vacancy , and four each if several vacancies are to be filled up . Those who fail to pass the test examination cannot be ...
... temporary " clerks , and in order to become " established " clerks they have to compete - five for a single vacancy , and four each if several vacancies are to be filled up . Those who fail to pass the test examination cannot be ...
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... temporary appointment of unfit persons . Delay will often occur , in spite of all the candidate's influence , when he desires to enter a particular Office , and for this there is no remedy , as vacancies cannot be made solely to please ...
... temporary appointment of unfit persons . Delay will often occur , in spite of all the candidate's influence , when he desires to enter a particular Office , and for this there is no remedy , as vacancies cannot be made solely to please ...
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... Temporary Clerks , and so on . Their functions are supposed to be of a more mechanical nature than those that are assigned to the general body of clerks who form the fixed " establishments " of the different Offices . Their number as ...
... Temporary Clerks , and so on . Their functions are supposed to be of a more mechanical nature than those that are assigned to the general body of clerks who form the fixed " establishments " of the different Offices . Their number as ...
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Henry White. 66 " ADMIRALTY . TEMPORARY CLERKS . " Prescribed Subjects . - 1 . Writing from dictation . 2. Arithmetic ( including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ) . 3. Book - keeping . Name of Candidate . Extra Subjects chosen by the ...
Henry White. 66 " ADMIRALTY . TEMPORARY CLERKS . " Prescribed Subjects . - 1 . Writing from dictation . 2. Arithmetic ( including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ) . 3. Book - keeping . Name of Candidate . Extra Subjects chosen by the ...
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Page 115 - The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 122 - To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.
Page 123 - AB into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole line and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square on the other part.
Page 126 - Similar polygons may be divided into the same number of similar triangles, having the same ratio to one another that the polygons have ; and the polygons have to one another the duplicate ratio of that which their homologous sides have.
Page 123 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
Page 122 - If two triangles have two angles of the one, equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
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Page 111 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 123 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square on the whole line is equal to the squares on the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.
Page 123 - If, from the ends of the side of a triangle, there be drawn two straight lines to a point within the triangle, these shall be less than, the other two sides of the triangle, but shall contain a greater angle.