Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accomplish this tremendous plan, Franklin Roosevelt could no longer keep his attention focused on lesser domestic affairs. His motto had always been: first things first. Wendell Willkie had cajnpaigned honestly for things Americans had always believed in: liberation of free enterprise from Government controls; relief of profits from tax burdens (especially punitive taxes); and a steady restriction of the sphere of Government activity...
...coming year will be determined, and Monday night the House will sponsor its annual meeting for all those interested in extra-curricular activities. At this captains of University teams and the heads of various organizations and publications will talk to all Freshmen interested about the work which their groups accomplish during the college year. Refreshments will be served...
...military defeats of France and The Netherlands and the desperate extremity of Great Britain have recently caused Japan's amateur imperialists to clamor for, and her professionals to prepare for, an adventure toward the equator. If the Japanese were to accomplish their much-vaunted New Order in this area, U. S. economy might be severely dislocated. Materials for a range of products all the way from tires to electric-light filaments, from tea to teak, from tin for canning to quinine for malaria, would become drastically scarce in the U. S. until substitutes could be produced in sufficient quantities...
...should have catholic testes and many intellectual interests, and he should be able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information. In four short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our college today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life...
...only way in which we can avoid war, or worse still, loss of freedom, is to have a bigger stick than Hitler and the only way to accomplish this is to have conscription...