Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Houses have attempted to establish their own annuals ever since the Deacons led the way, but a lack of subscribers has always led to a demise of these ventures. Latest attempt was at Lowell last fall, but the usual failure followed...
Already there had been three-cornered conversations between Washington, London and Ottawa. St. Laurent hinted at an early conference: "It may be that the free states, or some of them, will soon find it necessary to consult together on how best to establish such a collective security league." They might meet in Ottawa...
...will also cooperate with the Departments of Anthropology, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and with Geographers still in the University, M.I.T., and in other universities. Ex-Brigadier General GEORGES F. DORIOT, professor of Industrial Management, who is currently in the fight to establish the "Institute of Man" in Cambridge...
Died. John Christmas Moeller, 54, tiny gamecock of the Danish resistance, prewar Minister of Commerce (1940), postwar Foreign Minister (1945); of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. Moeller helped establish the underground, then escaped to Britain in 1942 to head the Free Danish Movement. He negotiated an agreement with Britain whereby the R.A.F. spared Danish towns from saturation bombing so long as Danish patriots stuck to a busy schedule of blowing up factories...
Died. Dr. Alfred Church Lane, 85, bearded onetime Tufts College geologist (1909-36), who in 1932 announced his results in measuring the age of the earth by the decomposition of uranium minerals, thus helped establish its now accepted age of two billion years; in Manhattan...