Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal is to establish a second house, similar to the U. S. Senate, composed of the authorities of the existing republics. All laws affecting the Union would have to be passed by them as well as by the machinery of the present regime...
...absolutely opposed to any sort of warlike adventure." Despite this pronouncement, neighboring countries-Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece-are holding their armies on the frontiers " in case of accidents." Turkey, another neighbor, was considerably perturbed over the Bulgarian crisis, as it was thought likely that an attempt would be made to establish a Bulgarian outlet on the Aegean Sea. This would have had an instant effect on the Lausanne Conference. However, it can be said that neither the economic nor the military condition in Bulgaria would permit her to carry...
...South, much of the smaller banks' income has always been derived from changes upon checks entrusted to it for collection. One of the main aims of the Federal Reserve system has always been to eliminate such tariffs, and to establish a uniform practice throughout the country of clearing all checks at par as far as possible. The tenacity with which the Southern bankers have clung to their collection charges for out-of-town exchange has provided most of the protest against the Reserve system below the Mason and Dixon line. Such charges have proved, however, a burden...
That the race will rouse considerable interest and that Ray is quite likely to establish a new record, if given a fast track and good weather conditions, can not be doubted. Clearly too the Athletic Association has acted magnanimously in inviting Ray to attempt the record once again; it will be repaid by the interest of the baseball game crowd and of those who purchase the special tickets. It is at least questionable, however; whether any athletic event in which the center of attraction is non-collegiate can be appropriate during Commencement week. The week is devoted to college life...
Three years ago a geographer named Wallace W. Atwood was elected to the presidency. He determined to establish the best university course in geography anywhere available. He discontinued the departments of biology and mathematics and reduced the staffs in psychology and sociology. Other departments were restricted. The department of geography of which Atwood was the head took the center of the stage...