Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talkie-talkie." To find furnishings for the new African Hall soon to be opened at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, Dr. Morton C. Kahn led an expedition into South America. Almost 200 years ago, African slaves in Dutch Guiana revolted, went into the bush to establish an Africo-South American civilization. Today the tribes live in thatched huts, cut designs into their flesh. Cowrie shells from the East Indies are used to adorn amulets as in Africa. The tribes speak "talkie-talkie," a mixture of Dutch, English, Portuguese, French and African. The Boni tribe in French Guiana...
...purpose of the consultant, Putnam explained, is to aid the undergraduate in discovering his ambitions and the whys and wherefores of them, to inform him what type of work each of 7000 careers involves, and to establish connections between him and his future possible employers...
Recognition. "If it cannot establish political ties with the United States the Soviet Union at least desires to strengthen its economic ties with America. And America being a great, wealthy, technically progressive and developed country, must appreciate the advantages of such economic intercourse as much...
When General Chiang Kai-shek marched up from Canton through the centre of China four years ago to capture Peking and establish the Nationalist government he led an army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting...
...Harvard was the first institution to establish this sort of course," continued Mr. Harvey, "and last year, when Mr. A. J. McMullen had charge of things, numerous letters asking for information were received. The need of informal instruction has not only been felt in Harvard, but also in other universities...