Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those and other methods lead to an attrition rate of over 25 percent in every West Point class, but the Staff of the Academy feels that such a high proportion of losses is justified in consideration of the peenliar goals of the institution. The purpose of a military organization is...
Despite popular misconceptions of the "Colossus on the Hudson," undergraduate enrollment totals only 2,000--up from a pre-war norm of 1,750. But because of the confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's...
Died. Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, 65, archeologist, top-rank authority on the ancient Maya civilization; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Long associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he spent some 40 years directing excavations in Yucatan and Guatemala, headed the 1932 expedition which explored the city...
To most Spanish-speaking peoples, tinto is red wine; to Colombians, it is a tiny cup of black coffee-and a social institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in...
The original Fuller Brush man is kindly, dignified Arthur C. Fuller, 62, who parlayed a basement shop in Somerville, Mass. into a national institution. Fuller made his brushes by night, sold them by day. In 1906 he moved to Hartford, got a helper. When retail stores refused to handle his...