Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A venerable institution little known to the U. S. public is the American Academy of Arts & Letters in Manhattan. Last week members and their guests assembled to hear an oration from President Nicholas Murray Butler honoring the centenary, of Charter Member Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an organ recital, more speeches by...
Henry Mill of England patented a typewriter in 1714. The firm of Sholes, Glidden & Soulé developed a practical machine in the U. S. in 1867, and typewriters began to be marketed by Remington in 1874. First U. S. patent on a writing-machine, however, was issued in 1829 to...
The one locality the Gideons never penetrated is the citadel of the U. S. Bible trade: Manhattan. There the New York Bible Society supplies free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120...
It is, of course, impossible not to be in sympathy with President Conant's very evident ideal of making Harvard the best educational institution of its kind in the country. A cardinal point of that policy is the gradual collection of men equally gifted in research, graduate teaching, and undergraduate...
The will was admitted to probate in the county court by Judge Michael S. Sheridan after being contested by distant relatives of the late journalist's widow upon the traditional grounds that Mrs. Nieman was "not of sound mind and had not sufficient mentality to make a will", and that...