Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ludwig Beck . . . and the dramatic about face of the 72 Communist members of the Chamber . . . have a direct bearing on each other. . . . There can be no doubt that the General's visit was inspired by the British Foreign Office, anxious to break up the Rome-Berlin axis and establish co-operation between Britain, France and Germany...
...outside connections to us at Little America during 1929-30; when we reported sitting down to supper during the Antarctic summer of continuous daylight, the Russians remarked they were just eating their breakfast in the middle of their Polar night winter season. The purpose of their expedition was to establish an advance meteorological and communication base for the projected North Pole flight of the Graf Zeppelin, which was subsequently canceled. Krenkel himself told us he was German, after our attempts to converse (telegraphically) in other languages had failed; Krenkel was further handicapped by having to start and stop...
Said Founder Pepperdine, who reluctantly admits that he never reached high school: ''I believe the greatest contribution I can possibly make to the coming generation is to establish and endow an institution of higher learning where Christian living . . . is stressed...
...last survivors of a critical age rich and already remote. They moved freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
...Senate in 1868, sitting as a Court of Impeachment [on unpopular President Andrew Johnson], put a quietus on another heresy that had broken out periodically since 1787. It was now determined, for all time, that impeachment was a trial, not to settle a political argument, but to establish crime." Had Johnson's impeachment succeeded, says Author Hendrick, the Presidency "would have been so diminished, would have so become the sport of legislators, that the constitutional fabric would have been shaken almost beyond repair." The U. S. would have had a government comparable to England's Parliamentary system, where...