Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a spokesman for an institution supply agency: "What the OPA was unable to accomplish . . . the manufacturers themselves have done with a bang."
Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it, complained Mark Twain. Last week, however, somebody did. Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, grey, 72-year-old Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced the most important advance in weather forecasting since 1909.*
"authority"-suits them well. George VI cannot dismiss, disparage or even threaten his ministers. As was shown in the case of his brother, Edward VIII, they can evict him. But no minister of-the King, nor any truly British socialist, would ever dare to raise hand or voice against the...
Erskine is another handy institution. The physical attractiveness of the girls runs high, but they rarely turn up with enough brains to know what you're talking about if you leave the subject of football. Most of them seem to be lassies from west of the Hudson who didn't...
This bit of propaganda, making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the point that the Russians are determined to regain and keep the briefly...