Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is now considering whether to establish a fixed percentage of the commuters admitted to each College class. Dean Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, has announced that the existing "laissez-faire" policy of admitting every qualified commuter will be changed...
...year's intensive training, he is within 15 Ibs. of Hepburn's press record (a record it took Hepburn nine years to establish), has snatched more and has cleaned and jerked more than Hepburn. In fact, Anderson is one of the few men in the world to have cleaned and jerked 400 Ibs. ... In the squat, which first brought fame to Hepburn, the comparison is as follows: Hepburn's best is 665 Ibs.; Anderson's official best is a staggering...
Representatives of three undergraduate organizations, fearful of Dean's Office restrictions and competition from other groups like themselves, met last night and drew up an agreement which will, in effect, establish a closed corporation for University film showing...
...attempts of U. S. officers to inflict democracy upon the remote Okinawan village of Tobiki. A young college professor turned army captain, effectively played by John Forsythe, is sent to Tobiki with explicit instructions: he must build a pentagon-shaped school, deliver a lecture series on democracy, and establish a Women's League for Democratic Action. Forsythe is quite natural and convincing in the role...
...Oriental" takes a further step backward when the villagers demand that Uncle Sam build them a teahouse instead of a schoolhouse. Fisby tactfully gives in, and then to give the people enough money to trade at the teahouse, sort of a rustic Hayes-Bick, he tries to establish them in the souvenir business. The troops won't take the trinkets, and the village is forced to resort to the sale of home-brewed, week-old brandy to the island officers' clubs. The brandy business booms and little Tobiki thrives. A teahouse is built. This set, designed by Peter Larkin...