Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throughout my years of campaigning I have always asked myself, 'How can I say what I have to say in such a manner that the humblest man of the people will understand me? How can I establish contact between myself and my hearers...
Five years ago Evelyn Waugh wrote an unusual first novel (Decline & Fall) which scandalized some readers, tickled many more. In 1930 came Vile Bodies, more of the same, which seemed to establish its author as one of the really funny satirists of the day. But his next, Black Mischief, sandwiched in between some disappointingly pedantic travel books, had an inferior taste, a gritty quality that set some teeth on edge. Last week readers of his latest novel were loudly disagreeing with each other about whether this new departure was or was not in a right direction. Critics had to scratch...
...holders of more valuable property. His inheritance tax would take 50% of any personal bequest over $50,000, 50% of any estate over $250,000. But his greatest project was for the unemployed. He would have the State rent or buy land and inactive factories, establish colonies of unemployed, feed, clothe and house them with the products of one another's labor until they became so happy that all other Californias envied them...
...primary duty was to establish a spy system which would report accurately all troop movements behind the German lines, plans for an offensive, the formation of new divisions, new types of guns and equipment, new methods of attack. Sensational means had been tried but it was the organization of routine train-watching posts which counted most...
...Kansas City, to establish the reality of divine law, Spiritualist Herbert Tanner engaged an Egyptian vaudeville trouper to lie buried in his churchyard for two hours, "demonstrate" that the dead are only in a trance. Police dug up the Egyptian, fined him $25 for not having a burial permit, $25 for performing the services of an undertaker without a license...