Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uproar over the kidnaping and murder of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Columnist O'Donnell gave his recommendations for the type of punishment needed to fit the crime. Wrote O'Donnell: "Cruel and unusual punishment [for these criminals], as prolonged as medical skill can accomplish, and as ferocious and merciless as tales of ancient torture can conceive, imposed publicly before all criminals and suspects in Yankee Stadium and brought by TV to every reformatory, jailhouse and parole-board hearing room, might instill [in others] some restraining fear of inevitable punishment...
From these small adventures in utilitarian education, it has set out in the last half-century to accomplish a dizzying task -to embrace, instruct and elevate every child and seeking adult of all classes, all nationalities, all shades of intellectual capability: to teach the sick, the neurotic and the healthy, to inspire the genius and to give the sluggard some manual ability to earn a living. The problems which lie between this noble objective and its fulfillment, the differences between the men who attempt to carry it out and the politicians who control them, have shaped the New York school...
...York's very bigness has enabled it to accomplish near-miracles of specialization in courses of study. Its adult education classes (currently attended by 75,000 grownups) offer everything from ceramics to amateur magic. Its four special high schools, open only to elite students who qualify by stringent entrance exams, are educational show places which offer high-level training for aspiring engineers, chemists, biologists, physicians, musicians and artists. Its trade and vocational schools offer a more dazzling variety of study. One whole high school is devoted to instructing would-be garment workers, another turns out printers, another automobile mechanics...
Responsible Source. Brownell, who wanted the appointment of Warren to get a favorable press reception, apparently thought he could accomplish that by leaking the story to five of his closest friends in the Washington press. He asked them to his home barely five hours after he had thrown other newsmen off his trail. The five: the New York Times's Arthur Krock, Scripps-Howard's Charles Lucey, Kansas City Star's Duke Shoop, Knight Newspapers' Paul Leach, and the New York Herald Tribune's new Washington bureau chief, Roscoe Drummond. "Gentlemen," said Brownell...
...between troughs of sudsy water, an arm resting in each, to see how the skin reacts to different soaps and detergents. Clothes are soiled with radioactive dirt, "Geiger-counted" after every washing. Researchers work daily on such questions as: What holds dirt on cloth and skin? What do suds accomplish? (Mainly, they accomplish sales. Nonsuds-ing detergents often work just as well, but many women won't buy them...