Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Races today and at the end of the week between the three crews now forming the first University 150-pound squad, are expected to establish a definite first crew. A time trial held last Saturday over a mile course made it obvious that the boats now being stroked by Donough Prince '31, and by R. R. White '32, represent the best material, and the coming trials will probably result only in a redistribution of the men in those two boats...
...bought the Virgin Islands, once famed as a buccaneer's resort, from Denmark for $25,000,000 in 1917 when it was feared Germany would establish a submarine base there. Until last week they were a neglected appendage of the Navy Department which used them as a coaling base. Their transfer to civil government by President Hoover was generally regarded as the first step in a program to demilitarize U. S. insular possessions...
...longer enough to keep down prices, to prevent discrimination, to establish minimum standards in working conditions. Much more is demanded of the economic system today. ... I know of no formula and of no program by which such objectives can be obtained in a social system which is as complex as our own. It may be possible for the Russians, who have started from zero, to build up a satisfactory social system by centralized initiative. We have no right to prejudice them. . . . [But] while the Russians may be building a very modern house on very modern foundations, they are building their...
...Society of the Sigma Xi, national scientific honor society, will hold a formal installation by the national officers in the Faculty Room of University Hall at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, to establish a Harvard chapter. In the evening at 7 o'clock a dinner will be given in the Harvard Union, at which Professor Harlow Shapley, of the Harvard Observatory, who recently was awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, will preside, and at which Professor G. W. Stewart, national president of the Society of the Sigma Xi, President Lowell...
March 24?International agricultural parley; at Paris. Purpose: to establish first international bank (capital, $9,650,000) for agricultural credit clearing...