Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent fatalities would certainly indicate that interest in the game in high-schools is a distinct overemphasis--not particularly student interest, but that of school authorities, who, one fears, are trying to establish a college code of football where a high-school one is necessary...
...Houses published in today's CRIMSON have obviously been the result of much careful thought on the part of the House Masters. The men chosen bring with them formal academic distinction and a popularity among the student body which should go a long way to establish the sort of success hoped for by the well-wishers of the House Plan. Virtually all of the principal departments of the University are represented, and it is obvious that every effort has been made to prevent any lopsidedness which would tend to result in special attractiveness to the students in any particular field...
...Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets of his bank. But if he, in the course of his purchases, lets any individual player accumulate more notes than he has assets, the bank is broken and the bank-breaker becomes Banker. Mean...
...students who have the privilege of listening directly to them, but the inspiration planted in the hearts of these men ripens into a background of tradition which colors the whole subsequent life of the institution. More tangible perhaps are the various endowments and memorials which devoted followers establish in order to perpetuate the ideals which some great teacher strove to make part of the lives of those who came to him to learn. Such was the peculiarly appropriate founding of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry; such also is the present endowment of a Chair of German...
Campolo v. Scott. After elaborate efforts of his backers to establish him as ferocious, Victorio Mario Campolo, Argentine, stuck his thumb into the eye of English heavyweight Phil Scott in Manhattan. Until then Scott had been winning. Closing his hurt eye, he asked the referee to disqualify Campolo but the latter, misunderstanding his wink, told him indignantly to go on. Through that round, which was the ninth, and one more, Scott continued pushing and shoving sleepy Campolo, effectively enough to win the decision. He must now be considered a rival of Schmeling, Sharkey...