Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population, particularly among the lower classes these laws probably reflect the conventional point of view of the average person. Although organized opposition to the birth-control movement is largely confined to one or two powerful groups, general ignorance or apathy are even more potent in preventing any attempts to establish free discussion of the topic...
...Western Air Express, having terminals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. and soon to establish a line Eastward to Kansas City, provide comfortable limousines for their passengers between the airports and the down town business districts. We also, incidentally, provide a luncheon for the passengers on the plane, all of which is without extra charge. I hope some day you will have the opportunity of riding on the "Model Airline of the World," operated by Western Air Express between San Francisco and Los Angeles...
More than $2,000 was assembled and the income from this fund was used to establish an annual lectureship. Last year J. Alfred Spender, retired editor of London's oldtime Westminster Gazette, went to New York University and spoke. It was decided to hold the lecture each year in a different part of the country. The subject of the lectures is "some form of dynamic journalism...
...writer continued his financial discussion by stating that "The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee--would indicate a self-confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs." I cannot perceive the logic in such a conclusion. Does the presence of a similar graduate committee on the Lampoon and the Advocate and the Dramatic Club and the CRIMSON carry a like significance? The Debating Council chose to elect a graduate committee because such a committee is found affiliated with every stable and lasting undergraduate organization in Cambridge, and also because it will...
...Debating Council is admitted by its officials to be bad. One debate of the previous season brought the Council fifteen hundred dollars. A year later, after scores of other debates, some with paying audiences of five hundred dollars on the wrong side. The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee when coupled with the dubious financial status would indicate a self confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs...