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Word: institutionalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The Roaring Twenties" is a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade and down into the gloom and common sense of the thirties. The show belongs to Jimmy Cagney, who is really in his medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

Six months ago a ham show opened in Chicago. Last week it was still running there. It had become a civic institution. It had played to 150,000 people and grossed over $250,000. The theatre was sold out three weeks in advance, and it was a good bet that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Scotch Mist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

This emphasis on teaching follows the trend established by President Lowell in making Harvard a more personal institution. The roots of this trend lie in the House and tutorial systems; they result in a closer and more complete relation between teacher and pupil. Where once the impersonal lecture system flourished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERSONALITY AND OR SCHOLARSHIP | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

In view of the heavy, pro-graduate student handicap resulting from Widener's tremendous size, there are certain temporary remedies which may be applied to more nearly balance the scales. The most desirable attribute of a service institution is accessibility--a function, in part, of service hours. And for several...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES ALIKE | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

The primary fact which must be grasped in any discussion of a library, university libraries especially, is that it is a service institution. It exists solely to satisfy the needs and the desires of the University members, who range from timid freshmen to octogenarian professors. Yet the source of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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