Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farms, his summer home, is located) he founded and subsidized. He has made many gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University (Ohio), and is a University of Chicago trustee. On a visit to his home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically destroyed in a fire, and had to be largely rebuilt, again with Mr. Eaton's assistance. Mr. Eaton never drinks, seldom smokes...
...dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense dictated the purchase from Denmark of the Virgin Islands for 25 million dollars in 1917, to give the U. S. military control over the portals of the Caribbean and hence the Panama Canal...
...brought about by formalism and purely academic interchanges and contacts. Harvard has an ambition to be more than the provincial New England college that she used to be; she desires to serve in educational matters as a truly national university. To that end, she in 1925 frankly undertook to attract more promising material from the South and West. Admission had always been by special examinations, which were very difficult for graduates of even the best Western schools; but in 1925 Harvard rules to accept, without examination, from states South of the Ohio river and west of the Mississippi, boys...
Your circulation department sends me a letter showing why we should patronize your magazine. I formerly thought your magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state (TIME, April 8). It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken...
Last week in his cheery way Mr. White undertook to speak for Kansas in the matter of social precedence for Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, who is also Dolly Curtis Gann, sister and hostess of the Vice President...