Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While student government officials at Wellesley believe that any change in Harvard policy would not effect rules at Wellesley, two officers of the Radcliffe Student Government Association that the Annext might establish restrictions based on their rules for chaperonage in mens' apartments...
...maintain its distribution of TIME overseas, TLI has to deal with 85 different political entities, each with its own currency and currency problems. So far, TLI has had to establish 24 basic subscription prices in local currencies and 60 different newsstand rates. In several countries yearly subscription prices must equal or exceed the total of 52 newsstand copies. In Norway, all subscriptions must be entered through agents; in Finland, through the post office. In New Zealand, no new subscriptions at all may be solicited. In China, because of currency fluctuations, newsstand prices are subject to change weekly...
...idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan, the nation's cage-bird breeders held their fourth national show with 2,021 entries, mostly canaries, including such varieties as curly feathered frills, big Norrich plain-heads. An Indian hill myna, who will...
...course of it, Winant does more to re-establish the reputation of Franklin Roosevelt than all the fevered praise of the writers of their recollections of him, and to recall him as he seemed then-not the toast-drinker of Yalta, or the self-righteous social reformer, but the determined advocate of aid to a Great Britain that was fighting for its life...
...Dunces had just commenced a medley of Crimson football songs, when burly Jim Cronin wound up and pegged his melifluous clients out into a cold Dunster Street. Subsequent attempts to establish themselves at Cronin's netted them only further icy receptions...