Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indisputable that Port Arthur and Dalny have been greatly developed by the Japanese, and that any interruption now would mean the total destruction of valuable institutions that have taken years to establish...
Czecho-Slovakia's enterprising new government has undertaken to establish a modern public school system. The diversity of races makes this a problem of peculiar difficulty, for five principal divisions, Czechs, Maygars, Germans, Poles and Ruthenes demand instruction for their children in their respective mother tongues. As a result, the schools in all large cities must have five teachers for every class, carrying on the same work simultaneously in the five languages. Naturally, this duplication results in expense and waste. But with a shrewd eye to the future, the authorities have prescribed English for all students, so that, gradually...
...intelligence is clouded. It is defined as the "faculty of understanding", and includes fundamentally the power of reasoning. Used in this sense, it has nothing to do with knowledge or information. The women students who recently proved that their professors knew less of current events than themselves did not establish a vindication of their own mentality--unless intelligence necessarily implies understanding of current events. So discovering where intelligence stops and knowledge begins is a hair-splitting business...
...State Superintendent of Schools of Mississippi has set himself the following year's task: to enumerate the educable children in the state; to codify the school law so that school trustees "can understand it by reading it"; to establish a course of study such that the " principal of a one-teacher school" will know how to teach all eight grades; to establish an average rural term of seven months; to form at least one hundred additional consolidated schools...
While making overtures to establish peace (see P. 8, "The Near East") Turkey is not neglecting her army. All Mohammedans in Constantinople between the ages of 23 and 39 have been ordered to present themselves at recruiting stations not later than Sunday, March...