Word: establish
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...brilliant young Englishman, and at his death in the war a community house was founded to carry out the principles for which Talbot died. Chaplain Clayton was in charge of this movement, and after the war transferred it to England where he has worked ever since trying to establish the "Toc H" principle of practical Christianity. Having founded seventy "Toc H" centers in England, he is now making a trip around the world to explain the principles of the movement and to create interest...
They turned to an editorial signed by The New Yorker himself, who realized "certain shortcomings" and recognized "that it is impossible for a magazine fully to establish its character in one number," further stating that the magazine "is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque...
Simon Guggenheim, financier and onetime (1907-1913) U. S. Senator from Colorado, last week gave $3,000,000 to establish a scholarship fund. The money, which Mr. Guggenheim referred to as "a preliminary gift", will provide from 40 to 50 fellowships to "both men and women of proved ability", giving them facilities for research and graduate work "anywhere in the world where they can work most profitably. This plan is broader than the famed Foundation,* organized 21 years ago by Cecil Rhodes (TIME, DEC. 22). It recognizes no age limit,† no restriction of subjects for research, specifying only that...
...students, faculty, alumni listened to him with attention, for he spoke of the Walter Hines Page Memorial Fund (of which he is Chairman), which purposes to start at Johns Hopkins a School of International Relations "for the scientific study of the means to prevent war" (TIME, May 12). To establish this school $1,000,000 is needed; for which the Memorial Association is about to campaign. "Military men and engineers," said Doctor of Laws Young, "have delved into the secrets of every science and even created a science of their own in order to succeed...
...science of seismology is still too young to make possible the forecasting of earthquakes, Professor Daly said. He pointed out that a great saving of human life might be made by experimentation in prediction of these disturbances. A gift of $2,000,000 would be adequate, he said, to establish statious all over New England for the study of this problem...