Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAIRO, March 21--U.N. Secretary Dag Hammerskjold is taking the line that Israel will have to withdraw from a little triangle of land in the Negeb Desert to establish legal right to send ships through the Suez Canal...
These failures and faults not only hinder France's solution of her own vital internal problems, but prevent her from participating positively in the international complex. An example of inefficiency was the constant failure to establish a consistent and coherent policy for Indo-China, resulting in prolonged equivocations and indecision...
...fire department has been frustrated in its attempt to establish harmony with its physical environment, it has succeeded with the University Administration and even with the students. The Department feels it does not have any more trouble with students at Harvard than with any other Cambridge section of comparable population. They have not been called out to hose down a riot since before the war and as Captain Francis Connelly said, "We tend to sympathize with the boys having fun rioting but we are forced to assume a serious position since the calling out of equipment for riots or false...
...fine record of their graduates, even when measured in such strictly academic terms as high per cent of graduate school admissions or fellowship awards, does not establish the applicability of their system to large numbers of students. Swarthmore's the most thorough in its discard of grades, includes only about 200 students, and these are drawn from a group of 900 which is already about as highly selected as Harvard...
...commission's blandishments simply because they did not want to bring wives and children into a cultural desert, Rockefeller and his associates set out to match Arkansas' industrial revolution with a cultural revolution. They scurried all over the state, sparked community playhouses, libraries, symphony orchestras, opera, even established a commission-sponsored Concert Hall of the Air to broadcast classical music. After losing out on a $100 million Glenn Martin guided-missiles plant because Arkansas lacked technical schools to provide advanced training for workers, the commission began agitating for a graduate school of technology at the University of Arkansas...