Word: accomplish
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...expanding student participation in student affairs has been the driving force behind the new constitution. The chances for its success lie in the ability of the men of future Councils to capture the imagination of the College. It appears that the new structure of the Council will not accomplish this alone. It remains for better publicity and the unfettered workings of the democratic system to reunite the undergraduates and the Student Council into a working team...
Rumors flew fast and wild. Was it a subterranean eruption fouling the Gulf with sulphurous poisons? Darling examined samples of the water under a low-powered microscope. He reported that the water seemed full of "waltzing mice": thousands of fast-moving organisms which "seem to accomplish their swimming by a whirling motion." He made sketches and sent them to Washington...
Meanwhile, the committee, originally assigned to get the board rooms in the old Advocate building habitable, start a subscription drive, and plan one or two issues, has used the first week of the term to accomplish the first of their objectives, according to Watt. "Dust--about three years' worth--was the dirtiest part of it," he said after the big board room and the four smaller offices had been cleaned...
...Administrative Vice-President and the President of M.I.T. to form an absolutely solid opposition. If the threat of removing exemption from taxation can be used to force compliance with an admissions policy formulated by men who have political power to control the legislature, it can be used later to accomplish anything up to and including state domination of every phase of college life and learning...
...explicit, and definite in their plan of action. We don't like the way they have achieved that definiteness by indoctrination from the top of a totalitarian government, but we owe it to our fellow citizens and to our convictions to use our free method of education to accomplish a result which can match the well-though-dictatorially-formulated opposition. If we really have the truth, we ought to be able to express...