Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What an insult to the educators of the U.S.! So the trustees of Columbia University do not consider any professor in the entire country worthy to be president of that university. They must choose for that office a man [General Eisenhower] who never has had any connection with an educational...
Plowshares & Perfume. As commander of temporal as well as spiritual affairs, kindly old President George Smith presides over an enormous going concern. The church, as owner of the big and prosperous Z.C.M.I. (Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution), Salt Lake City's first department store, deals in everything from...
* Luncheon confusion was not confined to Washington last week. In London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas addressed the American Chamber of Commerce, got his tongue twisted, referred to Britain as "the workhouse of the world." He meant "workshop," not an institution for paupers. British newsmen, conscious of Britain's workhouse...
In 1938 Perkins left St. Louis to take over the directorship of the Buffalo Zoo. There he found, an institution that was smelly, filthy and ratinfested. He cleaned it up. He doubled the animal population (a mere 400 specimens when he arrived). He designed and supervised the building of a...
Weekends at the Waldorf. "There will always be fastidious people," he said, and refused to cut his staff. He kept tabs on his waiters, studied food (he could tell many blends of coffee by taste), and traveled widely in search of new ideas. Once a year he assembled hotel men...