Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negrin cried: "Once foreign intervention in Spain has been eliminated, I can assure you a policy of national conciliation, conducted under the firm, energetic direction of an authoritative government, will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism of blood, a kind of ransom that had to be paid for the renewing of Spain...
Jehovah's Witnesses, or the International Bible Students Association, is a sect which believes it is helping to establish God's kingdom on earth, distrusts formalized religion (particularly Roman Catholicism), engages in periodic spats with the law because its members like to peddle anticlerical pamphlets, dislike to have their children salute the flag in school. The longtime pontiff of Jehovah's Witnesses is rawboned Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford. The Judge is the big money-maker for the sect, which claims that 275,000,000 copies of his writings have been circulated in 80 languages...
...radiomen are trying to conquer radio's last frontier-the ultra-high frequencies. Most avid explorers of this wilderness are television engineers. But televisors cannot simply establish squatters' rights, they must compete before the Federal Communications Commission with other services that seek room for expansion (TIME, July11). Meanwhile the inventors and engineers are concentrated on the problem of stretching this narrow field, increasing its effective range beyond the horizon. RCA-NBC boosted its television transmitter to the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building, claims reliable reception for its experimental telecasts over a radius of 43 miles...
...with a new plan, the Wardha Education Scheme (named after Gandhi's headquarters). Its goal: a school in every village. These schools (vidya mandirs: "temples of learning") will be opened in 166 villages of one province next month and the Central Advisory Board of Education is planning to establish them soon throughout India. Championing the plan is the board's bespectacled, English-educated president, Bal Gangadhar Kher, Premier of Bombay, father of five children and himself a one-time schoolteacher...
Past Council investigations helped, at least in a small degree, to establish the House Plan, the tutorial and general examination systems, the Reading Period, changes in course requirements, the Temporary Student Employment plan, and the present system of intramural athletics...