Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bigger: the gifts of Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield (by now amounting to some $12 million) to endow university medical research and establish Nuffield College (for public affairs and economics...
...technically international property, he relaxed and prepared to wait until U.N. acts on his case. His equipment for the vigil: a knapsack, a bedroll, a portfolio, a portable typewriter, a copy of The Fountainhead, the United Nations World, and TIME. Said Crusader Davis: "If the U.N. can't establish the status of one person, it's plain to see that they cannot...
Quiz Shows: ". . . Hastily establish the ignorance of the contestant and give her a refrigerator, an airplane, or $20,000 to get away from the microphone...
...deep spell, as if Caldwell himself were aware that something was the matter, and simply did not know what to do about it. Its prose has the glassy, elaborately monotonous decor of the language of hypnosis, beneath which the reader can sense the hysteria of someone trying to re-establish communication with the world. In what is obviously a rigorous act of will rather than the product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating idea or feeling can possibly be behind them. The reader, no matter how patient...
...Temple was doing what none of his predecessors since the breach between Canterbury and Rome, had done. Nonetheless ... he was fully convinced that for the cause of the solidarity of all Christians and the good of mankind his imperative duty was to establish contact between himself and the Pope. He was inspired by the eager hope that the action he was taking would open the way for official and effective cooperation between Roman and non-Roman Christians in all matters that did not involve dogmatic principles and historical conflicts which divide Christendom. The way being opened, he felt immediate steps...