Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite all their advances, there is a practical limit to how much the railroads can accomplish alone. Railroaders complain bitterly that the Internal Revenue bureau's taxmen take no account of their progress. The new diesels and freight cars are still depreciated at 20-year rates, but because of the industry's rapidly advancing technology, they must often be junked in ten years or less. And the railroads are forced to pay many other taxes that competing industries avoid. While the New York Central's stations were once monuments to prosperity, now they are millstones, costing...
McVey's goal did something for the Crimson that every tally on to the end of the tournament would similarly accomplish: it restored the varsity's confidence, thereby relaxing the team and improving the quality of its play...
...also very heartening, for, even should it not accomplish much, the formation of this all-star pressure group proves that the Democrats are still a youthful party, capable of not only imaginative but extraordinary action. Even better, it shows that the party does mean business, that they mean to make a Democratic majority more than a mere acquiescence...
Commenting on a well-paid professional Armed Force replacing the present draft system, Leach said, "It would be good, efficient and in the long run economical, but difficult to accomplish because of its heavy initial cost...
What is expected of the tutor is fairly clear, but how he is to accomplish it is left for the tutor to work out. Because only 254 of the 1,489 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences possess Harvard degrees, very few of those who eventually act as tutors have had previous experience with the program at all. Except for an occasional Harvard graduate who picked up some of the technique from his undergraduate tutor, the teaching fellow has only the vaguest idea what he is doing...