Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill to establish a National Institute of Health...
...price of rubber throughout the world that native growers, notorious for their usual indifference to such schemes, joined in. But last week, in the middle of the tapping holiday, the planters received a shock. In London, rubber prices started a swift decline, broke their 1921 low, went on to establish new all-time records for cheapness. Although the tapping restriction had not really had time to be effective, rubber merchants considered last week's market proof of its failure. Ominously, stocks of rubber on hand in London mounted to a new high of 101.380 tons against 35.107 a year...
...party claims an altitude of 28,150 ft. They rank it next to Everest, world's undisputed highest. In this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind, fight their way upward through the rare air a few feet at a time over the ice steps...
...college of the liberal arts. The study in this field must necessarily be limited when pursued as an undergraduate and so could hardly be considered as a substitute for business or night school. Furthermore, the college is primarily intended to provide a broad cultural basis on which to establish the later specialized life work. Through too stern devotion to accounting, banking, and trade, the university man is liable to lose the other intellectual benefits which are, in the main, the important factors in the value of a college education as opposed to a technical one. It is a cause...
...Association of Schools & Departments of Journalism, only five are not state colleges. Announced last week was the first endowment of journalistic lectures among the older Eastern private schools. Publisher Paul Block of the Brooklyn Standard Union* gave Yale $100,000 with which to employ a lecturer or lecturers to "establish a program of studies in the graduate and undergraduate schools to trace the relation of the newspaper Press to modern affairs. This plan does not contemplate the development of courses of a vocational nature, but it is expected to bring the students . . . to a clearer understanding of the role...