Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James C. Petrille has every right to be concerned about the unhealthy economic state of American musicians as a group. The industry is acutely overcrowded, a condition for which one cure would be an application of the age old rule of the survival of the fittest. But Petrilo's is...
Only a faithful handful of rooters showed up for the Holy Cross rally, and the team management decided to save "what little football spirit there is" for the Princeton and Yale tilts, rather than make the rallies "too routine" an institution.
I have always thought of Harvard University as an institution imbued with the spirit of the search for truth and with the seriousness of purpose of its students. In my first few weeks here as a graduate student, however, I have been impressed unfavorably with the great degree of rudeness...
Tepexpan Man, probably the oldest known American, had acquired a face last week. In the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, Vienna-born Sculptor Leo Steppat made the face out of statistics and Plasticine.
Those who were inside when the gates slammed have often behaved as if all of Boston were a closed corporation and they the only stockholders. In a sense, their view was justified. "These institution men did not themselves necessarily run the mills and the railroads and the banks and the...