Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Japanese Government, acting upon a bill passed by the Japanese Diet, announced that next week it will establish 22 Thought Control Offices in such leading Japanese cities as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Sendai, Sapporo and Fukuoka, with Thought Control Substations in 15 other cities...
...time he wrote, Professor Broom had made no attempt to free the fossil from its rocky matrix, as the bones were brittle to the point of crumbling. When they are finally freed, complete scientific scrutiny may establish the right of Australopithecus to a place in man's evolutionary prolog. Meanwhile, says Dr. Broom, the discovery shows that "we had in South Africa in Pleistocene times large non-forest living anthropoids-not very closely allied to either the chimpanzee or the gorilla but showing a number of typical human characteristics not met with in any of the living anthropoids...
...University of Iowa (Iowa City), the editor of the Daily lowan launched a campaign to establish a night club in the University's Memorial Union cafeteria, complete with orchestra and refreshments, to "keep the students in the city ... and reduce the highway death and injury toll...
Lawyer McGranaghan believed that Chiropractor McGranaghan's license to practice chiropractic permitted him to do practically everything to the human body except dose it with drugs or alter it by major surgery. To establish this belief in law, Chiropractor McGranaghan, having pretended he was sick, sued another, friendly chiropractor, Dora Berger, for refusing to give him anything more than spinal adjustment within the letter of the law. Chiropractor Berger behaved properly, decided the court, ruling against Chiropractor-Patient McGranaghan. Lawyer McGranaghan appealed...
Novel at least in the manner of its telling, File on Bolitho Blane gets under way slowly as Kettering's reports first establish that almost everybody on board the yacht had some good reason for wanting Blane killed. The cast of characters includes two rival financiers, a count, a bishop, a British philanthropist, a Japanese promoter, a secretary, two young ladies, and the evidence apparently involves them all impartially. The solution of the mystery-by a detective on shore from the same evidence that is made available to the reader-is sealed in the back of each volume...