Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Hassett is a Washington institution. Born in Northfield, Vt., he started his Washington newspaper career in 1909, worked decades as a newspaperman before shifting to a job with NRA and on to the White House. A kindly, gregarious, infallibly obliging gentleman of the old school, Bill Hassett rather likes...
. . . Your story stated that Mrs. Hobby was a graduate of the University of Texas. This is totally incorrect. Mrs. Hobby has never received any degree whatsoever from this institution. . . . A number of stories appeared in the press after her appointment as head of the WACs, and it was clearly determined...
"The economic situation is as you possibly imagine-corruption in every department of life, the black market has become a national institution. . . . Tokyo has become a city of troglodytes: holes everyhere. The hospitals are full of broken limbs, as during the nights zealous patriots dig holes into which other zealous...
When the subject of baseball was brought up, the Ambassador said that he hoped the Harvard team would make another trip to his country. He added that "at our best institution, Tokyo Imperial, we do not have much emphasis on athletics."
Died. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 91, inventor of flaked cereals, famed director of Battle Creek Sanitarium; after long illness; in Battle Creek, Mich. Kellogg, whose white mustache and goatee made him look like an otter-shaped Buffalo Bill, was the son of Seventh Day Adventists. He took over their church...