Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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erica, suggesting a "revolution, in the broad sense of the word." Our way of life, this system of democratic or capitalistic government, this-the best practical and the best practiced system-needs, according to you, some fundamental changes. To accomplish these you propose to set aside those very principles which you supposedly are trying to save: Girdler, Ford, et al must be put in their proper places. Perhaps you of the editorial board will offer your services "when the revolution comes" for judging the proper violations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and for compiling the "list of society...
...years Tacoma citizens dreamed of a bridge across the Narrows. It would cut out the old, slow ferry, bring the Navy Yard at Bremerton closer. It would help accomplish what Washingtonians talk of doing-open up the spectacular, thinly settled Olympic Peninsula. Last July Tacoma got its bridge-a slender, soaring suspension bridge,* rising 190 feet above the water, built in two years at a cost of $6,400,000 in Federal funds...
...torrents that had fallen from the mountains and intersected the roads." Successful conquest of these mountainous, slippery areas would have to be brought about on general principles of caution and surprise which have held ever since Hannibal crossed the Alps. Even against an inept enemy, the Italians probably could accomplish this conquest only after weeks, possibly months. The brave Greeks were far from inept...
What Chile did accomplish was to complicate further the overlapping claims already crowding each other around the frosty pie. Chile's segment includes part of the U. S.-explored lands on the west, overflows the Argentine-British claims on the east. Since 1908 this has been the most contested portion of the Antarctic...
...Japan is able to accomplish her immediate objectives of winning the Chinese war and acquiring undisputed away in the South Pacific, then economic control of South America, by the Axis powers would be a "probability," and "history has shown that economic domination merges by imperceptible degrees into political domination," the letter states...