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Word: establish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This writer suggests that the credits extended to the Finns be used to transport and establish in Alaska any and all Finnish refugees who are willing to settle there and become citizens of Alaska and the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

What threw the conservative organization into confusion was an article yesterday in an intown newspaper which grouped the Club's action to establish "living quarters" for women under the same heading of peculiar phenomena as the snow-thunder storm which heralded the coming of spring Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Living Quarters' for Ladies Won't Grace Harvard Club | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

...Russians would march all night northward out across the ice. Some rode in tanks, some in huge sledges driven by airplane motors. As dawn broke they would strike at the unfortified coast, gripping at small coastal islands, making a landing and trying to establish a foothold on shore, hitting occasionally for towns like Kotka. Hamina, Virolahti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Hammer & Sickle | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...teacher with Hutchins of the famous course in Philosophy of Education (reading and discussion of great books), as a writer of philosophic essays respectful of St. Thomas Aquinas, Adler became one of the most scintillating, least adored, thinkers in the U. S. How to Read a Book should establish him as one of the most persuasive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brilliance on Darkness | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Even Toppan, the best of them, can scarcely establish connection with the most intelligent of his boys. The implied conclusion: boarding schools, as an environment, are favorable chiefly to dolts and safe-players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dangerous Season | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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