Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the undergraduate waiters have been working have obviously been burdensome and irritating. Equally plainly their service has been unsatisfactory. The connection between these two facts cannot be blinked. The plan of student waiters will not justly be open to condemnation until a sincere effort has been made to establish fair and attractive conditions of employment. The recommendations of the Student Council committee seem admirably calculated to accomplish this purpose...
...Passed the McFadden bill authorizing National Banks to establish branches in their cities where State banks now have this privilege, by a vote of 292 to 90. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Kent's waiting list grew in popularity, it was seen that another school of the same type would be welcomed. Instead of lengthening his waiting list, Father Sill called to him his two prefects of '18, bought them another farmhouse at South Kent, five miles away, and helped them establish, not a twin, but an independent "younger brother" of his school. Twenty-four charter pupils were enrolled. Today, in its third year, this school (South Kent) has 51 boys, 7 masters and a waiting list of 100 or more boys, who will be admitted as fast as expansion...
...prize was given with a view to the fact that the University was the first institution of learning to establish a professorship in the field of music. The first prize will be given a year from this spring as it is to be maintained by interest on the sum donated, and some time must be allowed for the interest to accumulate. In the meantime, the Music Department will draw up the regulations for the competition, and the amount to be given...
...that could be revamped as "copy." With incisive, feminine neatness she ordered her trunks unpacked, and though no prying reporter saw, her U. S. friends well knew that there came forth: a Paris wardrobe (all in petite sizes) impeccable to the finest pinpoint; skins of wild Colorado animals (to establish beyond peradventure her origin); riding habits (she is an expert horsewoman) ; perhaps a ravishing orange skin-tight swimming costume (it was seen many a time last summer in the tank of the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington...