Word: establishment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fall did not take the witness stand in his own defense. Perhaps because he let others try to establish his intent, his jury disbelieved his honesty, convicted him. Doheny, in his trial, took the stand, insisted his intent was good, that the money was only a friendly loan from which he expected no favors. Perhaps it was because he spoke for himself that the jury believed his honesty, freed...
...coast of Asia, the southern extremity of Japan. When southern waters grow too tepid, the seals return to their islands, the cows to breed their young, the bulls to fast and later copulate, the pups to learn how to swim, the "bachelor" seals (males under seven years old) to establish their separate colony and conduct small restless migrations of their...
...hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used it for their battle ground. They resented the foreigner's intrussion, doing all in their power to hinder the building of the new forts...
...have conclusively established several other facts in the minds of the American parents. First, that Yale is a poor place to send his boy or girl. Second, you have conclusively explained why so many Yale graduates fail in life. Third, the only thing to do now is for every university to establish the alcohol-mindedness of its students...
Milk Drinkers. Speaking for a "million farmers," Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, fairly flooded the committee with agricultural statistics to establish the benefits U. S. husbandmen have received from Prohibition. His best statistic: before Prohibition every U.S. citizen drank 42 4/10 gal. of milk per year; today each drinks 60 gal. He argued that grains which once went into liquor now make breakfast foods, that corn is higher in value now than before 1920, that the price of grapes has increased. Mr. Taber painted farm conditions in such cheerful colors that he seemed sorely embarrassed when...