Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlightenment and justice than any pro or con writers have been able to do. His everlasting self-distrust, compensatory self-assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede. But Cezanne's knowledge of painting and the profound calculation and power of his real triumphs they fully establish. Not only the effect of these paintings, which other critics have expressed not quite so well: "Fundamentally they are static, not inert or dead, but active as a tower, a pier or a buttress is active. . . . Composed not only in the usual sense of having their parts disposed...
...student group announced that it hoped to establish in the future two scholarships each for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Columbia and to extend them to other countries if the former proved successful...
...German Student Refugees, headed by Robert E. Lane '39, has received $11,000 from Harvard students and faculty members, and $2,300 from Harvard alumni, to pay for the living expenses of the refugee students while they attend the University. Last November the Harvard Corporation voted to establish twenty new scholarships of $500 each ($100 more than tuition fee) for qualified refugee students of any creed from Germany, provided that each scholarship be supplemented by contributions for living expenses to an amount equivalent to $500 raised by the Harvard undergraduate committee. The award of these scholarships is administered...
Shor contemplated buying the college outright so that he might "establish himself as the youngest college president in America...
...Juan Negrin set up headquarters in the little fortress town of Figueras, 17 miles south of the French border and 40 miles north of the advancing Rebel lines at week's end. He announced a fight to the finish and declared that fresh troops with new arms would establish a line on the Ter River. In an odd dispatch. New York Timesman H. L. Matthews stated that the French border had "opened just a little" so that war material could get to the Loyalists. There was no official indication of this in Paris. Nor was there any indication...