Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could invent the lightning rod and bifocal spectacles, establish a Philosophical Society and the first fire insurance company in America, win success as a diplomat and found the Saturday Evening Post two hundred years ago, would probably be broad minded enough not to be surprised at the most advanced developments of our scientific age. All these achievements are claimed for Benjamin Franklin by the descendant of his periodical in its 200th anniversary number. But it is probable that even he would have been incredulous if he had been told that in the twentieth century his immortality would depend...
...There is no doubt in my mind that American jazz is a distinct international idiom, and that the work of such geniuses as George Gershwin and Ferde Grofe will establish this fact," said Paul Whiteman to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, in his suite in Symphony Hall...
...apparent paternalism on the part of the authorities is easily excusable in view of the novelty of a scheme involving a dovetailing of a graduate school and the Y. M. C. A. Such gentle urging as may be included in a two-a-week requirement will do much to establish a beaten path to a strange door, which once found will be reached in subsequent years through the automatic agency of habit...
...influence of Harvard in the latter half of the seventeenth century is attested by what happened in 1665 when one Marmaduke Johnson sought to set up a rival press. After he had transported from England a full printing equipment, seeking to establish a commercial printing establishment, the General Court at once ordered that there were to be no printing presses in Massachusetts in any town but Cambridge. The Harvard press, of course, was not a commercial enterprise...
...preface to English-speaking readers Author Wassermann explains that he is recounting a notorious incident of German history to illustrate a universal abuse; for in the youthful victim of a political intrigue he sees the symbol of all misunderstood children. By such explicit labeling the author hopes to establish his book as something more than the excellent historical novel which a large and enthusiastic European public thought...