Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Dorothy Thompson yesterday told her readers that "The Government of the United States, whose head is the President, is charged by the people of this country to accomplish two things: to see to it that the British Empire and Commonwealth are not defeated and destroyed, and to keep us out of participation in the war as active belligerents." This is a concise and accurate statement of the basic formula of foreign policy summed up by the popular phrase "all-out aid short...
...pictures showed that the twins had acquired a good technical foundation, needed to develop a personal expression. They may well accomplish that. Shortly before their show opened, they began studying (free) at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., directed by Dr. Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who takes as students none but the best. Said Freda, "We'd never seen a collection like it before. We'd never had the influence of the French Impressionists. It's almost breath-taking." Ida: "Now we're getting a new slant on art. It's invigorating...
Fundamentally, the group's aim is to advance "better understanding between North and South American students." To accomplish this it is both international and intercollegiate in makeup. Students of Harvard, M. I. T., and Boston University have joined, representing seven nationalities...
Great Britain is in simple terms fighting for her life, and fighting bravely. But we too are fighting for our life. Is this threat from Europe any more dangerous than the assumption that upon the consequences of a war in Europe we can accomplish anything by setting up the machinery of democracy? And on a continent that has shown anything but passionate love for such machinery...
...poet has attained--there is a lingering but powerful hint in the poem's background of the author's realization that he may be doomed to failure in seeking it. But the poem is more an exhortation to achievement, in which the author incites himself and another to accomplish what previous poets have failed...