Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conservatism, it has not infrequently been the birthplace of great men and greater ideas. Unfortanately, however, one of the latest ideas is open to criticism, not wholly of the favorable variety. In brief, it is a plan to buy up the entire town of Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, and establish there a new institution of higher learning, to be known as John Brown University. The purpose behind taking ever the community as a unit, including the hotels and amusement centers, is to insure that dancing, jazz, gambling and profanity be utterly taboo...
...statistics accumulated yesterday, however, establish beyond doubt the truth of the first theory. It was found that approximately 2175 students take their meals at privately operated restaurants, while no evidence could be found to prove that any college students had eaten his lunch from a paper bag for the past ten years...
...Chugai Shogyo suggested that Japan and Great Britain should follow America's example. The Hochi Nichi Nichi, Tomiuri all averred that the building of gunbobts was to establish, and presumably to defend, a Chino-American economic alliance. They charged that the boats in question would give the U. S. a preponderant naval strength in China and that the purpose is to "back up American mercantile efforts to outstrip Japanese and British interests...
...fortnight ago the Los Angeles Opera Association was formed. It has developed plans for a strong combination with the San Francisco Civic Opera, which seems likely to establish California in the operatic lists...
...joining the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association," continued the letter "you add your voice to those of thousands of others in an attempt to crystallize a favorable public opinion and thus permanently establish international peace...