Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until 1935 the country was known mainly to foreign savants as a "museum of peoples" who remarkably preserve the habits and customs of their various antiquities. It was known, incorrectly, to hasty readers of a popular book, as the Hell-Hole of Creation. Actually the high plateau on which Addis Ababa stands and which comprises about half the Empire is suited in climate to the taste of an ordinary U. S. citizen although the altitude is trying. Rushing rivers criss-cross the plateau with deep gorges. Transportation of fantastic difficulty is enhanced by unimaginable mud in the rainy season...
...tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad!"* Last week Comrade Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General, with himself as Commissar General. Since the Cabinet of Russia is known as the Commissariat or Council of Peoples Commissars, this creation of a Commissariat-General was indeed extraordinary. What it meant Russians and the world were left to guess-probably no more than that the Russian spy clique is little by little openly assuming some trappings of the power it has wielded for years. In effect an Ogpu Cabinet had been created...
...back to the old home. In October the President and Fellows adopted a statement, made public this morning, of the plan and the purposes of the Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The general purposes of this fund "is to strengthen the intellectual and spiritual life of the university, first, by creation of a number of new professorships to be known as, University Professorships; and second, by the establishment of new Harvard National Scholarships...
...general purpose of the 300th Anniversary Fund is to strengthen the intellectual and spiritual life and increase the usefulness of the University, first, by the creation of a number of new professorships to be known as "University Professorships"; and second, by the establishment of new "Harvard National Scholarships...
...embracing determination to make Harvard preeminent, are due to the vigorous educational leadership that we have come to expect of President Conant. The central plan, of increased usefulness, and the methods of attainment will everywhere kindle the imagination of laymen as well as educators. The announcement of the creation of this fund as part of the Tercentenary program is extremely appropriate. The Tercentenary takes on new meaning; it will not be merely a gala celebration to the past but more important, a great contribution to the future...