Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lesson. The British who survived the battle were not only exhausted; they were wiser men. They had seen 36 Japanese high-level bombers and 50 Japanese torpedo-bombers accomplish in a matter of minutes as much as Adolf Hitler's submarines and Stukas had been able to accomplish in two years of war-i.e., sink two capital ships...
...accomplish this huge task, Executive Director Milo Perkins split EDB into four autonomous geographical divisions...
...easily done with? What would the German soldiers say who had yet to shed blood to accomplish this supposedly accomplished fact? What of Leningrad? What of Odessa? What of Marshal Budenny's remnants, who would certainly not ask to be captured? What of the thousands of untamed miles and millions of untamed men beyond Moscow? What of the wall of the Urals? What of the Russian Armies beyond the wall...
Upperclassmen as well as Yardlings are receiving appeals from a large squad of solicitors who have been warned against "high-pressure methods"; the idea is to explain instead what the money can accomplish and why it is so vitally needed. Commuters cannot be contacted personally but they will be sent bills. However, if they wish to pay their pledge now they can do so by seeing the secretary at Phillips Brooks House...
...Germans would have to accomplish their aim either before, or in spite of, mud. Last week it appeared that the aim might not be to attack Leningrad, street by street, but to lay winter siege...