Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crux of the Chicago discovery is the use of ultraviolet rays strong enough to kill the germs but not strong enough to ruin their ability to create immunity when injected into a living body. To accomplish this, a special lamp had to be developed (details are being kept secret by the Office of Scientific Research and Development). Old-type ultraviolet lamps take so long to kill germs that they destroy immunizing power as well...
...convention: "We are here to do a job for the American people. To get the boys victoriously back home; to open the door to jobs and opportunity; to make a peace that this time will be lasting. That is what the American people expect the Republican Party to accomplish. That is why, in so many streams of late, they have been changing so many horses. . . . We do not propose to deny the progress that has been made during the last decade. Neither do we aim to repeal it. Whatever its source, if it is good we will acknowledge...
...such a group, even if selected with all the persistent care with which Mr. Dewey fills every post, could not accomplish much unless there was a very strong leadership somewhere. That is our second point. Mr. Dewey is a calm, steady, patient leader. He believes in conference and collaboration and he is loyal to his men. But he demands their best. He is himself a terrific worker, he applies his abilities and his energies with a unique concentration of power...
General MacArthur watched the landings from a light cruiser, then went ashore in a landing boat. The Jap's fate was certain, he said, but "his invested garrisons can be expected to strike desperately to free themselves and time and combat will be required to accomplish their annihilation...
...know of no better way to accomplish [continued operation] than to vest ownership and control of these Government plants in the men and women who have served in the armed forces. . . . Giving to each of them a share in the ownership and control of a giant segment of American industry would amount to giving them a stake in the future of the democratic economy of America which they are fighting to preserve. It would be the most beneficial form of a bonus payment...