Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display a bulky petition. It bore,said he, the names of 2,500,000 U. S. Negroes who would prefer to live in Africa. For three-and-a-half hours and 26 pages in the Congressional Record, he expanded on a way to make this possible: let the Government establish a Greater Liberia for "repatriated" blacks...
...month) to prepare the land under U. S. engineers. Senator Bilbo vows that 8,000,000 of the 12,000,000 U. S. Negroes would hop at the chance to escape the white man's yoke, live on the white man's subsidies until they establish farms and businesses. They would progress from a military government to a territorial commonwealth, finally to an independent republic. Their promised land would adjoin little Liberia, which a U. S. society set up for Negro freedmen...
...suggested a straight-forward physical theory for the lethal effect of X-rays. An electric charge passing through a cell, said Dr. Failla, divides the molecules of protoplasm into positively and negatively charged particles. These ions then recombine to form new chemical substances. In a vain attempt to re-establish osmotic equilibrium in the cell, water from the intercellular spaces flows into the cell through the membrane, causing the cell to swell...
...which Mr. Littauer gave to establish the new center, only part has been spent on the building, a four story, granite structure, which houses not only the School of Public Administration but in addition a 200,000 volume library, an auditorium, eight large seminar rooms, a large reading room, lounge, and a statistical laboratory...
...ignore this first spark of interest would be damaging to Latin American relations so vital in an era of Nazi economic penetration. America's "hands across the seas" must be supplemented by American minds. By offering to establish an institute at Harvard, the Brazilian government is making a step, important not only in itself, but as a custom that may find favor with the rest of South America. It has wisely offered to bear most of the financial burden, leaving to Harvard the sole responsibility of providing a few rooms for the library and for lectures. The hand is extended...