Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...super-abundance of energy carelessly applied. So far the record of 1927 has been extremely good all in all, but the authorities cannot afford a recurrence of previous situations, and any tendency towards another riot will be sternly suppressed and the offenders treated with the utmost severity. 1927 could establish no more worthy tradition than that of avoiding all appearance of riots and of making large scale disturbances in the Oval henceforth entirely out of order. The Yale Daily News...
...Modernist, Dr. Straton replied: "The average Modernist preacher could put on the point of a pin what he does believe but it would take a ten ton truck to hold the things he does not believe. What they should do is get out of their present churches, and establish churches of their own, converting people to their beliefs if they can, instead of standing still, and knocking to pieces the very foundations of the Christian religion...
...Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover already heads a very complete system of Government regulation and inspection of radio. A bill was introduced in Congress by Representative White of Maine, to increase the powers of the Secretary of Commerce to refuse transmission licenses to companies believed to be seeking to establish monopolies. Secretary Hoover upheld the bill in committee hearings, declaring radio must be safeguarded as a public utility. David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, favors the bill with some modification. Secretary of War Weeks fears its provisions may hamper the Army...
...built only when the Law School had assumed an important place in the University. The University Museum is a great jumble and bulk of buildings, yet their very immensity inspires one to recall Agassiz, that great scientist who gave up science for a period to get enough money to establish a museum...
This is highly praiseworthy; the sponsors of the scheme, no doubt, looking abroad upon a naughty world and finding it bad, have decided to establish for themselves a little oasis of purity in the surrounding desert of profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing...