Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such assertions," wrote Chalmers, "seem to be based on the assumption that there are no degrees of ability and that efforts to establish such degrees are undemocratic. . . . We believe that a student has the right to as good an education as he can be given and is capable of receiving." But that didn't mean that every man, woman & child in the U.S. should be sent to Harvard...
While police were counting the money found in the box, a two hour job, the owner did a quick disappearing act. he has not yet been found, and police are withholding his name until they establish a more definite link with the Coop case. A co-holder of the same box could not be reached yesterday...
...army officer in which he recalls to his wife all the intimate details of their last 24 hours together. It is dreadfully sincere-and dreadfully embarrassing. By writing the story in the first person singular, Monsarrat deprives himself of whatever ironic distance he might otherwise have been able to establish and identifies himself with all the coy, callow and cuddly sentimentalities with which his hero's letter drips. Leave Cancelled leaves the uncomfortable feeling that someone's privacy has been violated...
...would soon be devalued to somewhere near its real worth (black market price: 350 to $1). The uncertainty nipped French exports; foreign buyers were all holding off for the lower prices devaluation would bring. Charles Gruere, president of the National Federation of French Exporters, called for the immediate establishment of a "free" export franc similar to the export lira in Italy (TIME, Dec. 8). France was reported ready to establish such a franc. Estimated value...
...controlled radio in Northern Korea: "[The commission] covers up ... sinister, aggressive ambitions. . . ." An organization called the "League of Koreans Residing in Japan" attacked the commission in somewhat overheated English. Verbatim excerpts: "Of course we are still feeling our respects for U.N. efforts in each their positions in achieving to establish a complete independent Korea but ... anyhow seeing from the past experience and the present situation there is little hope...