Word: establish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only old records that fell were in the 440 where Captain Jack Morse ran out the old distance to establish a new G.B.I. quarter-mile mark of 49 2-5 seconds, and in the Varsity discus where Johnny Healey skimmed the plate 156 feet, 6 3-4 inches, shattering G.B.I. and Harvard records, both formerly held by his teammate, Johnny Dean...
Just as one could establish the size of small boats anchored off-shore by the way that they reflected or scattered the incoming waves, so the three physicists estimated the size of atomic nuclei by the way in which they scattered the neutrons...
...California Martin concern was merged with Wright Co. in 1917, but Glenn Martin, whose temper is sharp, soon quit to re-establish his own plant, this time in Cleveland...
...committees. This is a very efficient system but tends to debar from discussion a large number and keeps the president from being in close touch with the general sentiment." It is to remedy the admitted defect of the present form of faculty meeting, and at the same time re-establish the former good, that the new council of sixty has been called into being. With a provision for rotation in office, it should permit "all the members of the larger faculties to serve in the course of a few years...
From admittedly incomplete information, it would appear that Japan feels the moment appropriate to extend the claims made in the Twenty-one Demands of 1915. Thwarted at that time, chiefly by untimely publicity, in her endeavors to establish a virtual protectorate over China, she managed deftly to acquire a strangling grasp on certain important Chinese economic interests, such as the Han-Yehping mines, as well as significant privileges in Manchuria. Her recent advances in this tremendously important region need no comment, and these are being supplemented by subterranean movements in Mongolia and Sinkiang. From these it would appear, with little...