Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military were confident that within four to eight months they could do what the Japs had been unable to accomplish during their long occupation: restore Tarakan's oil production to its prewar level of some 400,000 barrels a month...
...accomplish the first two goals, President Contant proposed the National Scholarship Plan for Harvard College, a plan which was exceptionally successful from its founding in 1934 until its discontinuation at the beginning...
Note to all midshipmen: Don't worry, boys--if you don't make the lower quartile this term, it's very easy to accomplish it during your junior semester! Tomorrow marks the 70th day before our next leave. That makes Thursday kind of a big holiday. Now we can sing truthfully...
Everywhere the climate of opinion abruptly changed: some pessimists even doubted that the conference would open on schedule (April 25) in San Francisco, and the hopes for what it might accomplish steadily lessened. In part, this depression was the result of a belated awakening to the actual, power-political nature of the Dumbarton Oaks scheme for world security. But the news that the Russians were sending a second-rate delegation, that the Big Three had been finagling with the voting rules of the proposed world assembly (see below) was equally discouraging to hardened diplomats and to ordinary people bemused...
Ushers for Götterdämmerung. Armies did not wait for high politics. Occupation was a fact, carried out under long-prepared directives as detailed as they could be without decisions on what occupation was intended to accomplish...