Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with it two Durnier-Wahl seaplanes, one to be flown by Aviator Lincoln Ellsworth, son of James W., the other by Amundsen. When he stated his plans, Amundsen announced that he would spend some 24 hours examining the Pole and its vicinity. He thought it might be possible to establish a fuel and food base at the Pole for further aerial exploration. From Kings Bay to the Pole is only a seven-hour flight. From the Pole south to Wrangel Island and Bering Strait is about 1,500 miles...
...means of a series of standardized questions, or "represented situations," he thinks it is possible to establish, with reasonably constant results, a practical guide to character measurement...
...very hard to establish the validity of personality tests, but it is rather easy to establish their reliability. Reliability is the question of whether you can return and repeat the tests and still have a high measure of constancy. The only check by which to determine the validity of a test is the correlation obtained between the test and ratings by associates, and such ratings tend to be unreliable...
...Union will now become altered in two respects as a result of the changes made in its constitution. It will establish itself as an organization independent of other University bodies, such as the Student Council; and it will represent more fully the different branches of the University. The Student Committee is the representative of the University in conducting the affairs of the Union, and it is in connection with this body that the principal changes are made...
...time had come for the U. S. to have a college of diplomacy (TIME, May 12). They agreed that it would be most appropriate to dedicate such a college to that eminent international servant, the late Walter Hines Page, U. S. War-time Ambassador to England, and to establish the college as an adjunct of his alma mater, John s Hopkins University. Plans arose, went forward...