Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A friend . . . of ours got into a great deal of trouble several years back when he decided to pass up an opportunity to go to Yale and instead entered a certain educational institution in the home of the bean and the cod. . . .
Searchers groped through the smoke-filled passageways, looking for stragglers. Brother Eugene Benoit, Montreal teacher and member of the Institution of Marist Brothers, went from cabin to cabin, smashing windows with his hands and pushing children out the portholes. Many took him for a priest and asked for absolution. Brother...
When a backer once proposed to commercialize him, Brick quoted the club's potential payroll, compiled from what the boys make on their regular jobs. The backer dropped the idea, and Brick was relieved. "We don't want any commercialism," he said. "We're a self-endowed...
But this was a dangerous step for Japanese leaders to take, for it compromised the throne. Since the people have been told that the Emperor is ruling them personally, it would be difficult for Hirohito not to assume responsibility for defeat. Apparently the war lords were ready to drag the...
Because some U.S. fliers went visiting in Essex, England, a chubby 9-year-old with a prodigious gift for piano-playing arrived in Watertown, Mass, last week. The youngster is blind Jimmy Osborne, who never studied music beyond listening to the BBC and to phonograph records. Now he is going...