Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...else in sight. He decided after elaborate trials that long-legged Robert Goodale was more dependable than Herbert Shepard, who stroked last year's freshmen. But Leader was respectful of Columbia; the way they beat the Navy three weeks ago meant power, a boat that might establish the old-time supremacy of New York City oarsmen...
Happy was Lawyer Reilly to win his first Supreme Court case on a far-reaching issue which would establish a precedent throughout the land in black & white murders. Happier still was Alfred Scott Aldridge who, if prosecuted again, will have the right to question every juror on race prejudice...
...abstruse that Dr. Richard Fay Jackson's identification of three new sugars at the U. S. Bureau of Standards last week was a little triumph. He found the new sugars in inulin, a starchlike ingredient of certain roots, in the course of the Bureau's researches to establish an inulin-sugar industry for the U. S. When starch is boiled in water and otherwise suitably treated it breaks down into glucose, or grape sugar.* When inulin is handled similarly, fructose, or fruit sugar, is the chief result...
...time by an Episcopal clergyman, though not in the Church nor with the prayer-book service. Second marriage, at present sanctioned only for the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, would be in the discretion of a Bishop or an ecclesiastical court which the new Canon proposes to establish. Also administered by Bishop or court would be annulment-the only means by which the Church would allow a marriage to be dissolved-on nine grounds: 1) Lack of free consent; 2) Failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; 3) Impotence of either party; 4) Mental...
...raised as much in memory of the spirit and righteousness of the war as to the memory of those who lost their opportunity of life "to make the world safe for democracy." When one looks today at our great democracy, controlled by the American Legion, straining every nerve to establish a competent mechanism to insure world peace (except in cases of national honor and naval parity), then certainly no one can question the value of those sacrificed lives. Can the names of those mistaken men who fought for a foreign monarch and German Kultur be connected in any way with...