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Word: accomplish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logical and encouraging sequence to the British move of increasing the percentage of their Continental imports, and West Germany's similar trade-easing move. The President has rightly acted to leave open the chance for lower tariffs, but he need not now bend to special interest pressure to accomplish this desired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stimpson: No Barriers Down | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Theodore O. Cron 1G, claiming that "mass demonstration won't accomplish much," withdrew from the CUSC. Cron said that he tried to add amendments to the various motions at Monday's meetings, but was voted down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Supports Petition Circulation; New Group Asks Student Testimony | 3/25/1953 | See Source »

...very least he got off the ground floor with his classification of thought into theological, metaphysical and positivist levels. TIME, still in the dark basement with a lot of other theologians, is trying to translate knowledge of the real world into dualistic mumbo jumbo. The most you can accomplish that way is to produce a few pages of high-sounding argument without once having to refer to reality . . . Come on, TIME, dig the culture concept and a little bit of scientific method if you want to play in the intellectual big leagues. You and Reinhold Niebuhr are sticking your heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...know--the constant complaints may be more the results of compulsion than anything else. In any case, a required course should be better taught than others, else it would be wholly useless. Perhaps if the Faculty devoted less time to figuring out what the language rule was meant to accomplish and more to making the courses superbly taught, something besides an endless round of aimless revisions would come from the next fifty years of contention...

Author: By Samuel. B. Potter, | Title: Mutilated Rules | 2/26/1953 | See Source »

...that the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa are free to move, what do they hope to accomplish, and what kind of help do they need? In New York, bespectacled Tsiang Ting-fu, chief Nationalist delegate to the United Nations, carefully laid out his government's attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Wanted: Tools, Not Men | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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