Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order from an undergraduate publication which cannot take itself more solemnly than its members take themselves. The point worth emphasizing is that the tendency to visualize the law abiding citizen as a "goody-goody" to use one of several possible terms requires careful analysis in order to establish firmly the qualities of obedience and uprightness as attributes worthy of whole hearted emulation...
...floors of the Eiffel Tower, respectively, as a restaurant, a dance hall and a. tea room on July 14 met with hot opposition from the French General Staff, who now utilize the Tower as a wireless and meteorological station. The refusal was based on the fact that it would establish a precedent and necessitate costly special insurance...
Since that time the press has not improved. The facts of the case today are that Harry K. Thaw has begun proceedings to establish his sanity. The story is complicated by a petition for intervention on the part of Evelyn Nesbit, divorced wife of Thaw, declaring that "Harry Kendall Thaw has not fully recovered his normal mental condition and that he is still a lunatic, and that if he should be freed from restraint at the present time and his estate restored to him, he would dissipate and probably wholly destroy the interests which . . . Russell William Thaw...
...adroit. The Turkish National Assembly refused to ratify. On April 23, 1923, the Conference reassembled. After four long months of wrangling, Ismet forced the plenipotentiaries, Greeks, French, Italian and British, to yield to his stubborn and irreducible demands. The final draft was signed in August, and did little but establish peace, regulate the number of foreign troops in Turkey and Turkish frontiers...
...machinery consists of three commissions, administrative, medical, legal. These commissions will pass on all Belgian subjects desiring to emigrate to America, will conduct mental and physical examinations, as well as scrutinize the emigrant's documents. The object is to anticipate the proposal that the U. S. establish agencies in Europe to pass on the availability of immigrants under the so-called 3% quota...