Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that important department. In addition to being the first Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Morton was a pioneer in the development of Nebraska City, having founded a packing industry in that city, which is still in operation. He was also father of Arbor Day and induced the Nebraska Legislation to establish that as a state holiday and most of the other states have adopted it as a state holiday. Mr. J. Sterling Morton established Arbor Lodge at Nebraska City, and his son, Joy Morton, head of the Morton Salt Company, recently deeded Arbor Lodge to the State of Nebraska...
...Cole, Associate Professor of Economics, to allow him to trace geographical variations of commodity prices from 1790 to 1860, and to direct specific attention to the history of commodity prices in New England in order to establish a commodity price index for that area...
...newborn company have already appeared. Earliest of all in the field was Universal Wireless Communications Co, of Buffalo, which obtained late last year (TIME, Jan. 7) from the Federal Radio Commission a generous helping of wave lengths. This is still a dark horse; no steps have been taken to establish its proposed radio network between no U.S. cities. Postal Telegraph itself is the other rival: it has also applied to the Commission for domestic wave lengths. If radiotelephonic hookups, now a possibility, become a reality, the remaining great communications company, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., will be drawn into the fight...
...avowed leading aims of the new Houses has been to establish a social and intellectual concord between student and instructor, in short, to develop further President Lowell's conception of the University as a group of experienced and un-experienced students working together for the same end. It has been proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine...
...that, it would seem advisable to have the two types of residents sit elbow to elbow in the dining hall. Equally discordant is the idea of a separate commons for the instructors. While the older men might well have a small, auxiliary smoking room for their special use, to establish an individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance can but result in only occasional and formal...