Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Packet, one of the town's four newspapers, carried this announcement : "It appearing to be the disposition of the gentlemen of this city to establish a bank on liberal principles, the stock to consist of specie only, they are therefore invited to meet tomorrow evening, at six o'clock, at the Merchants' Coffee-House, where a plan will be submitted for their consideration." Up to that time there had been no bank in New York. Until three years before when Bank of North America (now part of The Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance of Lives & Granting Annuities...
Formal debating often involves the stiff presentation of set speeches that fail to establish a clash of issues. Technicalities of definition are pushed for all they are worth, and no rational basis for an understanding is reached. The decision is awarded on the basis of effective presentation, and the scramble for the decision results in the establishment of intrinsic rights and intrinsic wrongs on a question that is necessarily relative. Informal debating and parliamentary discussion in House debating clubs; with no decision at stake, lay the foundation for argument that seeks not merely to win but to establish truth...
...news that the Federal government plans to establish a huge corporation in the Virgin Islands to produce rum must appear as glad tidings to the people of the United States as well as to the inhabitants of the islands. For the natives it promises to end the poverty-stricken condition which has been the lot of almost the entire population since this country acquired the islands from Denmark in 1917, and should bring about an economic rehabilitation which should be the sounder and the more enduring for being based upon a cooperative corporation that will give the inhabitants their share...
...proudest of Persians last week was Hossein Khan Keyostevan, consul for his country at Karachi, India. From Teheran he had just received orders to go next month to Shanghai and open a Persian consulate, thus becoming the first man in 1,300 years to establish official diplomatic relations between Persia and China...
...little marrow left. Author Cabell can still rouse his faithful followers to delight. Considered by himself and his admirers the most polished of U. S. writers, Cabell is often accused of writing in Wardour St. style-defined by Lexicographer H. W. Fowler as "... a selection of oddments calculated to establish (in the eyes of some readers) their claim to be persons of taste & writers of beautiful English...