Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular correlation which Andrews and others have sought to establish is that between sunspot activity and stock market transactions...
Prevention: Avoidance of "profound emotional stress produced principally by accident hazards and social and economic insecurity." Emotional stress "can be off set by suitable compensation, either ego-stimulating or monetary. Since modern commercial aviation lacks any great amount of ego-stimulation, it remains to establish some standard to determine at approximately what point [monetary] compensation overcomes the effect of the accident hazard...
...time when Yankee clipper-ships sailed the seas in numbers that were symbols of commercial prestige and potential naval power, but the advent of the steamship found America napping, and today most of our trade is carried on in foreign bottoms. If the United States does not soon establish a definite air-schedule across the Atlantic to Europe, she may very likely find herself again outclassed--this time by an air-minded Germany...
...Syracuse nose & throat specialist who operated on the tonsils, was later obliged to call in a general practitioner to treat a "puzzling pleurisy" which Medical Student Newcomer soon developed. She recovered, was graduated and licensed to practice medicine, went to Paris for postgraduate study, returned to Manhattan "to establish and run semi-public clinics for the so-called white-collar classes." She learned enough about what patients think of doctors to publish an emotional book on the subject last week...
Into his own at last comes gangling, homely Ray Bolger, whose feet are loaded with as much "swing" as Benny Goodman's jazzband. In On Your Toes, Bolger has his first chance to establish himself as a definite stage personality rather than a funny Broadway tap dancer. Called upon to impersonate a WPA music teacher who winds up as a master of ballet, his genuine charm and humor are instantly apparent. In fact, he and his teammate, pretty golden Doris Carson, seem to fit into that important theatrical niche vacated by the late Marilyn Miller & Jack Donahue...