Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fresh air to the field as yours has done. Your entry into this branch of literature partakes of the character of Strachey's entry into the province of biography. Your demonstration that informative articles concerning current events need not be melancholy is a public service. You help to establish the falsity of the notion that there is no royal road to learning. Your disregard of all known conventions of journalism, and of some conventions of etiquet, is as refreshing as a julep...
Scholarships. A report on State contributions to the Association's fund to establish 100 banking and economic scholarships in American colleges was read. Twenty states were found to have filled their subscription quota, with a total of 1313,675 pledged toward the proposed fund...
...citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman $100 if he could definitely establish the date and location of the crimes he had observed. Replied Dr. Straton...
...policy of necessity fails to carry out the purposes of the Merchant Marine act because such policy not only is failing to establish a merchant marine sufficient to carry a major portion of our commerce, but, on the contrary, our merchant marine is carrying less and less each year...
...Again, the purpose of the act to establish a military and naval auxiliary is being disregarded in that the number of vessels in use and available for such purpose is being steadily reduced, and, last but not least, under his Administration we are losing American commerce to foreign shipowners, one of the very things the act in question intended should not occur...