Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Article 9 of Japan's new constitution: ". . . The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish [this aim, arms] will never be maintained...
Once, when Bob Kleberg was holding forth on what scientific breeding can accomplish, a friend remarked: "But nobody can breed better people." Bob considered the possibilities for a minute, then said: "Don't know. Maybe you could. Nobody's ever tried...
...protest the "JA" election which was foisted upon the student body by the Student Council today. On the ballot, under the heading "University-Wide" Food Conservation Poll" the student body was told, in a more three paragraphs, of all the wonderful things a "yes" vote would accomplish. Nothing appeared on the ballot to state the case for a "no" vote...
...this financial stroke, Italy hoped to 1) wipe out the domestic black market in lira, and 2) add to its store of dollars by encouraging U.S. remittances, the tourist trade and export trade to the U.S. The chances seemed excellent that Italy would accomplish both...
...Should Go to Venice," comes off too, but for different reasons. It is really nothing more than a vignette, which through the author's sensitivity and ability to project, keeps a unity of mood and feeling. Though this work is limited in scope and almost completely unexciting, it does accomplish the difficult task of getting into a child's mind and making the child stay human. "Apprentice" fails in describing children. The little boy involved is repeatedly and annoyingly referred to as "the cube-shaped boy," a bit of unexplained whimsy that is not easy to digest...