Search Details

Word: establish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Russia, thought the best guessers, has two ways in which it can seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Positions for Paris | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Bloomers & Doctors. Goucher College (present enrollment: 740) had a tradition all its own. It was the first women's college in the U.S. to establish a department of physiology and hygiene; its alumnae were among the first women ever accepted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. It encouraged other innovations, Goucher had its bloomer girls when bloomers were still a shocking novelty. Nowadays its students take only three courses at a time, are tested not merely on the facts they know but on such broader matters as their understanding of scientific method, their enjoyment of art, their grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goucher's Sixth | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...armored cars. After four days of discussion between a Russian general and a British brigadier, the Russians agreed not to interfere any more. For the Russian retreat the Communist press had an odd explanation. The Russians, it solemnly assured its readers, had staged the affair in order to re-establish diplomatic contact with the Western Powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Waiting | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Professor Hooton suggested the Society establish a central record bureau to place anthropological data forms in the hands of every member. He also got in a plug for one family of apes he has always respected--the chimp. "They're the closest to man--shove the chimpanzee in almost any situation among men and he wouldn't stick out--except perhaps favorably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Tells Dentists They Can Get Anthropology Data | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres. By the eve of 1948, the Authority had spent $25 million and reclaimed 70,000 acres, mostly from the big sugar companies, in order to establish land cooperatives and subsistence homesteads. (Its costly land-purchase program has now been slowed considerably; the budget allotment for next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next