Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket...
Originally, H-442 proposed to deprive any educational institution in the Commonwealth of its tax exemption privileges if it employed an advocate of "atheistic communism" on its faculty. During hearings before the General Court Education Committee the phrasing of H-442 was changed to direct it toward those who preached...
¶ The Cigar Institute of America offered the Smithsonian Institution an antique: an 85-year-old cigar (unsmoked).
St. Benedict Center was established in 1940 by a group of Harvard Catholics as a somewhat more independent version of the Newman Clubs (for Catholic students) in other universities. But when Father Feeney became the center's spiritual director seven years ago, it soon began to grow into a...
Gayden naturally makes a dignified pass at the girl, while his mother nods approvingly; but the innocent young thing is rescued by the intervention of Gayden's uncle, a solid-citizen doctor. He convinces the mother (through some dubious elementary psychology) that her son is an "incurable psychopath;" that she...