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Word: institutionalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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A bill to "safeguard the Christian ideals of American education" will be taken up by the Education Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature within two weks. Behind its pious title, it contains threats against the tax-exempt status and the charter of any educational institution which "knowingly employs in its...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bill of Goods | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

The institution, founded by professor Asa Gray in 1864, contains one of the world's finest collections of plant types. The six-member staff studies everything from the flora of Bolivia to plant life in the Rocky Mountains, carefully cataloguing material in three floors of steel cabinets, or in the...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Circling the Square Flora's End | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

Under the terms of the proposed bill, any educational institution that knowingly teaches Communist doctrines or employs a member of the Communist Party on its faculty will be made ineligible for the tax exemption status granted to most private educational organizations in this state.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legislature Gets Bill to Squelch Colleges' Reds | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

Like everyone else, Congress' Joint Committee on the Economic Report wanted to know what was happening to the U.S. economy. Did rising unemployment and falling commodity prices mean a recession? Or would it be just a temporary letdown? Last week the committee called in economists, unionists, farm leaders and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choose Your Own Word | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

New Definition. At week's end, white-haired Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, dug up a word for what was going on. The gaunt old (65) ex-professor, who had spent 23 years with the Brookings Institution, has long been a middle-of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choose Your Own Word | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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