Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match, however, is getting to a turning point. Next week John L. Lewis assembles his C. I. O. in Pittsburgh for its first convention. Object: to establish a "permanent C. I. O.'' Last week, however, A. F. of L.'s William Green printed in his American Federationist an offer to resume negotiations with C. I. O. where they were dropped last December. To canny labor observers this was a small sign that Administration matchmaking is having effect behind the scenes...
British businessmen ignored Stanley's proposal to establish trading posts in the Congo, but shrewd King Leopold II of the Belgians, in the market for a colonial empire, sent him into the region as the representative of a Belgian association of traders. In a few years Stanley had so expanded the association's influence through trading posts and treaty alliances with petty native chiefs that by 1885 the world powers at Berlin agreed to recognize the Congo as a sovereign, free State, under control of the trading company. Leopold's next step, as head of the company...
...Perhaps," says Dr. Dunn in the current issue of Columbia's Independent Journal, "it will be necessary to establish a central haven for the threatened stocks of scientifically useful animals and plants from all nations. Perhaps it should be as far as possible from a seacoast and remote from the danger of air attacks. Perhaps it should be near that hole in the ground in Kentucky where we keep our spare gold...
...persons with temporary constipation, who are too impatient to wait for the bowel rhythm to re-establish itself, Dr. Aaron suggests certain mild laxatives. Unobjectionable are mineral oil, milk of magnesia, cascara sagrada. "Least objectionable" for habitual constipation is agar, a dried mucilaginous extract of East Asian seaweed, which produces a large bland bulk in the bowel. "Mineral waters, whether natural or artificial, should not be used. . . ." Dr. Aaron went on to advise readers to avoid any cathartic pills that contain aloe, aloin (both somewhat irritant drugs), or strychnine; also any laxative chocolates, candies, chewing gums that contain phenolphthalein...
...best means, however, to prevent the occurrence of ghost writing in a course, is to have the instructor who corrects the papers establish close relations with all the members of the class, and have interviews with them before each paper is due to criticize their outlines and bibliographies. Very few students will go to a "ghost" if they have already done most of the work themselves. In this way the small percentage of the college who cause so much trouble might be dissuade from their practices; and the major drawback to the custom of assigning essays removed. After that, little...