Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast formations, had smashed the U.N. army, this week were clawing forward to pursue and destroy its still-organized fragments. Caught in the desperate retreat were 140,000 American troops, the flower of the U.S. Army-almost the whole effective Army the U.S. had. With them, fighting to establish a defensive position, were 20,000 British, Turkish and other allies, some 100,000 South Korean soldiers...
...retired in 1947, and set out at once to fulfill his early ambition. That year, Father Thomas Moore, almost 70, was accepted as a novice at the Carthusian Monastery of Miraflores in Spain. This week, after three contemplative years, he was busy in the U.S. on a mission to establish the first house of his order in the Western Hemisphere...
Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's death in 1945, his friends discussed plans to establish the Roosevelt Scholarships, an American counterpart to the Rhodes Scholarships. Students from all over the world would be brought to the United States for graduate study, just as the Rhodes awards annually bring men to Oxford in England. Nothing has ever come of this living memorial...
...establish Roosevelt Scholarships to Harvard would serve a double purpose. Not only would this plan honor FDR, but it also means that more foreign students would come to the University, which has previously had fewer foreigners per capita than the University of Chicago and Yale...
...logical answer, and the one which fits in best with Harvard policy, is to establish more sensible rules, and not to rely on individual favors from Housemasters to relieve the social pressures. With the football season over, dances and the like diminishd noticeably, and the problem of where to go of an an evening is a more serious one. Seven o'clock, or even eight o'clock, is no deadline for Harvard students...