Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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An institution which works smoothly and continuously is often accepted by those who benefit with a dullness of appreciation and an absence of recognition that bewilders the observer. The work of the French Talking Film Committee falls within this category; years ago it became a Harvard institution, unique of its...
¶ Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed Bohemian-born anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, in the summer usually goes to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska with a gang of amateur helpers to study traces of prehistoric migration from Asia. Last summer he brought back great quantities of weapons, household utensils, stone lamps...
Small Hobart College (enrollment: 334) at Geneva, N. Y. is famed for its all-time record of 27 straight football defeats (1928-31), as the purported birthplace of the drinking song Solomon Levi* as a modestly endowed, progressive liberal arts institution with more graduates in Who's Who than...
General Dill soon found there was more in his job than fighting Arabs when he was called upon to quiet Dr. Khalil Totas, Principal of the Friends' Mission School, "only American Educational Institution in Palestine." Dr. Totas, having received British military instructions to evacuate the school so that it...
* In financial columns and market quotations the Exchange gets more free publicity than any business institution in the U. S.