Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Professor Simmons as teacher and James Tobin as student feel the need for a restatement of the purpose or values of liberal education at the present time. No one can say whether Harvard education is satisfactory, because there is no general agreement on what it is trying to accomplish. There are no criteria by which the whole educative process, or separate courses as part of that whole, can be adequately judged...
...OTHER DAYTON PHYSICIANS AND THEIR WIVES PROVOKED ONLY ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE. DAYTON OBSTETRICIANS HAVE ASKED FOR PRINT OF PICTURE FOR TEACHING OF INTERNS, RESIDENT PHYSICIANS AND NURSES. DESPITE HOLLYWOOD RESISTANCE VIA BLOCK BOOKING STRANGLEHOLD AND DESPITE ANTAGONISM OF A FEW DOCTORS THE LORENTZ-DE KRUIF PICTURE WILL INEVITABLY ACCOMPLISH THE TWO PURPOSES FOR WHICH IT WAS MADE. IT WILL SAVE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND BABIES AND IT WILL PROVIDE THE INTELLIGENT ADULT WITH ONE HOUR AND EIGHT MINUTES OF A THRILLING EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE WHICH HE OR SHE WILL LONG REMEMBER...
...took a trip to Sun Yat-sen's tomb at Purple Mountain, near Nanking, there prayed and wept. By week's end he blandly approved "liquidation of the Chungking regime"-something 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers have spent two-and-one-half years trying to accomplish; and ordered Chinese "men in the field to cease hostilities immediately." He accused the U. S. of a "calculated campaign of slander," and complained that U. S. diplomats (presumably Sumner Welles and aides) were "dodging from capital to capital" organizing international opinion against...
...Welles and his staff of assistants. To U. S. watchers from afar, uncertain as to the object of his mission (although President Roosevelt had said that it was only to gather information), in doubt as to whom he could see, what he would hear, skeptical of what he could accomplish, the journey of Sumner Welles was less a continued story of diplomatic progress than a series of vivid scenes, puzzling as stills from a movie whose story is not known...
...higher waistline. It starts exactly at its natural, rightful indentation and extends both up and down, to give you a firm lithe line like the stalk of a flower. Sometimes the effect is achieved by a yoke over the hips, or the placing of pockets. . . . The new suits accomplish it by longer jackets...