Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have accepted with full belief in the wisdom of our counselors the almost unanimous opinion that the National Crime Commission should put its principal effort into stimulating and assisting the creation of state commissions in all the states of the nation...
...imposing total stands at 37 billion 500 million francs. It "balances" with a surplus of 160 million francs. Upon the innumerable issues faced during this budget's creation, five Ministers of Finance have fallen...
...19th Century; studied British genius; analyzed Spain; tried to nationalize health; philosophized on the War, in sad passivity. His latest prose work, The Dance of Life (1923), was a most remarkable symphonic synthesis of the component parts into which a careful analytical mind had reduced common existence for re-creation into a rounder, richer thing...
...Chancery Club is an organization of rather recent creation, having been formed about two months ago, its purpose being "to promote social contact and professional association among members of the Harvard Law School, and to afford opportunities for their meeting and dining together." The only other eating club in the Law School, besides the Lincoln's Inn, the Chancery Club is taking its part in fulfilling a need long felt in the School...
...Beneath this proposal lay the principle so often propounded by champions of "the small liberal college." The effect desired was much like the scheme which is being worked out, from the bottom up, at Claremont Colleges (Monterey, Calif.), in the creation of whose first unit, Pomona College, Harvard men have taken active parts. More interesting: the actual details presented were identical, save for one important exception, with the celebrated "quad" system which the late Woodrow Wilson sought, 15 years ago, to apply to Harvard's associate, Princeton, and which got him "kicked upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted...