Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the opening whistle till the end of the second overtime period neither team could establish a clear margin of superiority as the play ebbed from one end of the field to the other. The half found the count Knotted at 0 to 0 with both the Crimson and the Orange and Black guilty of missing several shots at point blank range...
...control Palestine. Arab leaders, fearful that large-scale Jewish immigration with its land acquisition and higher living standards would loosen their hold on the Arab masses, have continually urged Britain, the mandatory power, to restrict further Jewish entry. Pledged by the Balfour Declaration and the League Mandate to help establish a Jewish State in Palestine, the British have been unwilling to carry out their promise because the Arabs threatened their security and oil in the Middle East. Commissions returned from Palestine with trumped-up findings which "proved" that Palestine could not absorb further immigration while Arabs were pouring into Palestine...
...gave emphasis in our New York sessions to the preposed International Union of Students that we wished to establish. Detailed proposals were worked out for an international clearing house for student exchange, a commission to work on the rehabilitation of devastated universities, an international student newspaper and journal to facilitate exchange of ideas and information. Other proposals, too numerous to list, were drafted during those wearisome twelve hour sessions in New York. When the week was up, we had the basic frame work of a program which was to prove invaluable when we arrived in Prague...
Trade Charter. To all nations the State Department offered a proposed charter of world trade to establish a common code of commercial practices, set up an international trade organization, and work for the gradual elimination of discriminatory and preferential tariffs. Russia was eligible to join; in fact, the charter had been tailored to fit Russia's state trust setup...
...present draft of the constitution [TIME, Sept. 23] would establish an omnipotent assembly and government . . . such a regime would risk leading us finally to anarchy or dictatorship. ... I believe that the direction followed up to now . . . is not the right direction. All my wishes go, then, to those who present themselves as candidates pledged to follow another direction...