Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought that it was keen in the field. Said he: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases and re-establish itself among...
...would be dead paper, and had I been an honest adviser of the Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives for such stuff. But I salved myself with the hope that by leading these Arabs madly in a final victory I would establish them with arms in a position so assured (if not dominant) that expediency would counsel a fair settlement of their claims...
...team will journey to Pine Manor this week to seek its annual victory from the Wellesley racquet wielders. The Pine Manor aggregation is headed by Tillie Alston and Peggy Carpenter, ranking court stars, while the CRIMSON forces will be featured by a smashing Bronxville-Minneapolis combination. Pre-game odds establish the local boys as strong favorites...
Ezra Pound, poet and economical, although not (he is anxious to establish) an orthodox member of the latter profession, thinks that students here are being cheated of their $400 tuition...
Economy, however small, was to have been one accomplishment of this session, and several appropriation bills actually were shaved to establish the principle of shrinking the Budget. But last week the vote-hungry House again liberalized the pension laws for World Warriors and their dependents, at a cost of $18,751,000 to start with, of hundreds of millions in future*-this year's prelude to a general World War pension bill scheduled for next year. And the Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave...