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Word: institutionalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Established last year as an emergency institution to help relieve the post-war crowding of local colleges, Devens' original charter only provided two years of study there. As Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the project, President Conant presented his plans for extending it to a full four year college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Urges Expansion of State College | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

To transfer the students to an established institution and expand its facilities for their use would be better than building up Devens merely to provide for the temporary emergency President Conant said. He felt that the large number of applicants to Massachusetts State College in recent years justified the project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Urges Expansion of State College | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

Little for Charity. By such deals Filene's basement has managed to operate profitably for 38 years, and has become something of a Boston institution. Its success is based on its automatic price-cutting policy. Any article not sold within twelve days is marked down 25%; at the end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Hub of the Hub | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

As he lay awake in his sleeper berth, a New England businessman pondered the problem of reconciling his business and his God. When he got back to Bristol, R.I., William H. Smith went to his boss (who is also his brother) and said: "Business is rather a selfish institution. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Efficiency Expert | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

For the second time the Harvard Food Relief Committee is making an important appeal to the Harvard community. The funds to be raised will go to the needy students at the Universities of Athens, Peiping, Vienna, and Warsaw, and the international student rest center at Salzburg. Their plight is desperate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT GIVES SUPPORT | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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