Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personality and special ability than a hasty appraisal of his college record. The positions must be made more competitive, either through stressing their honorific aspect, or increasing the stipend when possible. Finally, even the mechanics of advising are needlessly lax. Four 15-minute visits a year can never establish a worthy program. They can barely accomplish the business of course selection...
Radcliffe formally adapted the movement last night, voting to establish a chapter led by co-chairman Marguerite Davis '50, and Irene C. Tinker...
...much good these helpful hints accomplished was demonstrated one day last week when Russian soldiers seized a middle-aged woman at 9 a.m., at one of Vienna's busiest intersections. She struggled desperately as she was pulled into the Russian jeep. To establish her identity, she tossed her handbag to a bewildered Austrian policeman. The Russians patiently stopped their jeep, and took the handbag from the policeman. Then they drove off with the woman...
...Yankees were playing for keeps too. Joe DiMaggio played the entire game. Manager Bucky Harris had let his best hitter go the distance in only three exhibition games-all against the Red Sox. Clearly, each team wanted to establish its superiority before the season even began. It was a war of nerves between the two clubs that would fight it out for the American League flag (the wise guys had already voted the other six clubs out of the running). The Yankees won again...
...with friends. To read her essays at one sitting is too much of a good thing; they then seem a bit boneless and soft, their smoothness too consistently stylized. But taken one at a time, as they were written to be read, they are rare works of art, and establish one of the most pleasurable of human relationships: warm kinship between civilized writer and reader...