Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will, Mr. Ward, after certain specific bequests, gave the remainder of his estate to the University "to be known as the General Artemas Ward Memorial Fund in memory of General Artemas Ward, my great grandfather, a graduate of the University, the income to be applied among other things to establish his reputation, too long neglected, as a devoted and faithful friend of his country; to maintain permanently his old homestead at Shrewsbury, Mass, as a public museum, and for such other purposes as the University shall deem proper and useful...
...knell of laissez-faire is being sounded in the Caucasus. Government interference has stepped in to establish among the Caucasian tribesmen a fair value for wives. The maximum price for brides as indicated by the interplay of scarcity and utility, or in short by the ratio of supply to demand, is now fixed at $25 (half-price for a widow). In the future, the paternal monopolist will be forbidden to set an exorbitant value on the commodity he controls...
...President told reporters that he did not expect to establish a summer White House away from Washington this year. His absences from the Capital would probably be brief. He might, he said, go to Denver to make a speech, might also go to Atlanta for a similar purpose...
Last week the Times-Picayune (the Picayune absorbed the Times-Democrat a few years ago) joined with Tulane University for further regional cooperation. The newspaper, to celebrate its 90th anniversary next year, offered the University $6,000 annually for ten years to establish a Chair of Journalism. The journalistic instruction is to be correlated with that in economics, literature, history, languages and possibly commercial law, so that students will have a well-rounded social learning no matter into what profession they eventually go. President A. B. Dinwiddie of Tulane accepted in the name of the University Board of Administration...
Such an optimistic view would indeed be surprising did it not come from foreign observers who are endeavoring to establish better conditions in their own country. Something of the old human tendency to desire the other child's toy may be discerned as an explanation. But even dissenting such motives two Britons would hardly have made an extremely favorable report of American manufacturing conditions without some valid grounds...