Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial developed that administering arsenic and croton oil to old men was by no means the defendant's only foible. To establish the sincerity of her denial of this vice, defense attorneys shrewdly made a point of admitting their client's guilt of thefts, adultery and forgery. Motive for Mrs. Hahn's dealings with her elderly Cincinnati compatriots was established as mere robbery. Motive for the robberies was even more innocent - her addiction to gambling, preferably on horseraces. Of the $50,000 acquired from her old friends in the last eight years, Mrs. Hahn last week...
...thus far there has been little decisive action in the Spanish war, but Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco, without waiting to be granted the right to blockade, one of the "belligerent rights" now being hashed over in London (see col. 1), was reported last week planning to establish a naval blockade of the Leftist coast, appointed Vice Admiral Francisco Moreno Fernández to be Commander in Chief of Rightist naval forces in Majorca. This made correspondents unquenchably curious to visit the island of Majorca, often rumored to be in Italian hands...
...DuBois & Hardy had decided to find out more about the body's mechanisms for mitigating heat and cold-that is, to establish the temperature zones in which various reactions occur. Every morning one or the other arrived at the laboratory at 9 o'clock, without breakfast, and undressed slowly to avoid dissipating heat because of muscular exertion. Then he entered a calorimeter, an insulated cabinet in which the temperature could be controlled over a range of 72° to 96°, and in which the amount of heat radiated by the naked body could be measured. Findings...
...been for the present faulty scheme of inter-House cooperation, the misunderstanding need not have arisen, and its unfortunate results could have been avoided. We feel that immediate steps should be taken to establish a committee, with wider powers, which could bring about efficient cooperation between the Houses...
...Future. "Just as sooner or later the outraged conscience of a community or a nation sets into motion forces which re-establish order under law, so, I firmly believe, the outraged conscience of mankind will set into motion forces which will create in the sphere of international relations unshakable order based...