Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler were of a complicated nature, but with them he also provided sugar-cookies for the slugged. These he announced as German offers: 1) to make several kinds of peace pacts with virtually all European States, including an air pact in which England might join; 2) to establish with France and Belgium wholly new demilitarized zones; 3) even to lead Germany back into the League of Nations. At the bottom of this cookie jar was a conditional jagged stone in the shape of intimations that the Great Powers would now be willing to take up the question of restoring...
...Time expressed it, however, their masters, in cooperation with the College authorities, arranged for a central cross Section Committee to regulate room assignments. The aims of this committee, as its name implies, have been to make each house representative of the college as a whole, and thereby to establish a standard of social equality among the houses. The obvious result of this hit-or-miss plan has been to place a great many men in a thoroughly uncongenial, and often intolerable atmosphere. Friendships made in the familiar Yard surroundings are rudely interrupted and can rarely be satisfaciorily picked up again...
...Kashii and roared that he was the divinely appointed new Military Governor of the Japanese capital. Normally the august name of the Son of Heaven is considered too sacred to be mentioned or invoked, but last week's emergency was clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division. 'BY COMMAND OF THE EMPEROR, I have ordered mobilization of a portion of my troops at important points, the purpose of which is to maintain order in the capital and to protect important objects...
...students as well as he can." The legislator who proposed that the majority of the taxpayers determine just what is truth, places much more faith in the electorate than it has so far merited. Until the millennium arrives it would seem advisable to let each citizen of the Commonwealth establish his own definition of truth for his private consumption...
...tall, spindling girl with bare legs and a Buster Brown haircut bowed her way on to Manhattan's Town Hall stage one night last week, tucked a violin under her chin and with rare self-possession proceeded to establish herself as one of the promising prodigies of the 1935-36 season. She was Marjorie Edwards, 13, of San Jose, Calif., who traveled East for the first time last summer to play at the Berkshire Festival. This time she was back to face the test of a more formal...