Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what method shall be used here, a general examination somewhat after the fashion of the French and German examinations is more commendable than a required course. The best time for the examination would perhaps be late in the Junior year. Moreover it might be well to establish an optional course, full or half, which would deal primarily with the material to be covered by the examination. The important thing, however, is to get the need of a citizenship requirement generally recognized both by the undergraduate and by the college authorities. For by the dictates of psychology, an impulse will inevitably...
...much opportunism has crept into the system of the body politic of today and in one form or another the human beings of today are demonstrating the old brutal principle of might is right. By force we are trying to establish peace. By deception we except to establish credit. Indulging in an ordinary butchery of the human race our politicians promise to evolve the brotherhood of man! ! All this evil has to be stopped; evil can never be remedied by evil but by truth. 'Love', says Mr. Gandhi, 'alone can conquer and the conquest of a true love is eternal...
...Johnson's concrete proposals are: 1) that there ought to be Presidential preference primaries in all states; 2) that we ought to establish no connections with the League of Nations or its subsidiaries...
...bucket the orders of small customers. Many of the latter live at considerable distances from New York City, and are through inexperience unable to distinguish between the primary cotton market on the New York Cotton Exchange, and the mushroom imitations of it which crooks are so frequently ready to establish during a cotton boom. Officers of both the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges are cooperating with the authorities to close up these cotton bucketeers, and evidently with success. Yet when the inevitable smash comes, no doubt the legitimate cotton exchanges will be blamed by many victimized but inexperienced...
France will probably be badly bumped on the Folies Bergères expedition. They come with the notion that their production is superior to those of native managers. They believe that they can establish by the visit the supremacy of France across the orchestra and footlights. This they cannot do unless they call into consultation American musical comedy doctors. America has had the most and the tiredest business men for too many years not to have developed the funniest comedians, the loudest and fastest jazz and the most beautiful race of chorus girls that the world has ever seen...