Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...
...Double the number of State scholarships for college (now 3,000). Since New York already has enough colleges and universities, Dr. Gulick advises it not to establish junior colleges or a State university...
...administrators may suggest and he may fix wage rates at anywhere above 25? up to 40¢. In so doing he must consider as "relevant factors" differences in living, production and transportation costs-the elements of the South's cherished wage differentials. Having done so, he may not establish any differential "solely on a regional basis." He will be damned if he does, damned if he doesn't by high-wage Northern or low-wage Southern Congressmen...
...five-months-old corporation, now seeking to establish itself in permanent form, first gained public attention prior to the last election by a series of broadcasts on Plan E and other issues in the political limelight...
...entirely unexpected and libelous attack upon Virginia football by one "Tack" Hardwick strikes us as creating exactly the opposite impression from the one he grimly set about to establish. . . . Hardwick served to place Harvard in an unsportsmanlike position by his vicious attack; of the interchange of "cracks" it was the Harvard team who were guilty of profanity. We were good-natured, they insulting. . . . It seems shameful that any group of comparatively intelligent individuals representing, we suppose, an institution so aged and venerable as Harvard should degrade themselves to such an extent. The attitude exhibited by the Cambridge and Boston people...