Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ganna Walska has had busy days this season. She has fought in court with the U. S. Customs endeavouring to establish a legal residence separate from her husband, Harold Fowler McCormick. She has opened a Manhattan branch of her Paris perfume business, and obtained orders from small-town department stores. And, contrary to all expectations, she has taken a concert tour, the peak of which came, last week, in Manhattan, where she had never ventured a public performance...
...other hand, calls everyone a citizen who is born in America. When Italian parents living in New York have a son, of which nation then is he a member? An agreement on nationality is the third type of law which is extremely advisable, and which we hope to establish...
...meeting Professor Spaulding will speak before the Association of Secondary School Principals on the topic. "What May the Senior High Schools Demand of the Junior High Schools." He will also address the National Association of High School Supervisors and Inspectors on the subject, "Should Rural Communities Attempt to Establish Junior High Schools." Professor Spaulding, who is well known in educational work, recently published a monograph on the small junior high school...
...Indianapolis, last week, the apostolic, frock-coated figure of Evangelist Paul Rader, onetime prize fighter, dominated a group of determined antievolutionists. Defenders of the Christian Faith, they called themselves. Their plan: "To establish 48 nerve centres [one in each State] for the suppression of pernicious teachings that are undermining the very moral fibre of our youth...
...example of the present tendency of generous benefactors definitely to stipulate for what particular purposes this money is to be used. One recalls the recent donations to Vassar, the University of Michigan, and, overtopping them all in generosity, that of eleven million dollars to Harvard University to establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results. It is true that a donor's foresight is never...