Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original research work, the utilization of which should be one of the privileges of university residence, has done no more for many a faculty member than to place him in the dilemma of the Ancient Mariner. He has been obliged to use the Christmas and April vacations to accomplish what was impossible during either term...
...declared that he resigned because of "a sense of regret at my inability to accomplish anything." The opinion was general that if so great a statesman cannot work with his recent colleagues there will have to be a general reshuffle of the Cabinet when the Nationalist Party Congress shortly convenes in Nanking...
...permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger to the machine over which it is revolved. For Professor Packard's work, however, the most interesting tricks which the telegraphone can accomplish are its powers of endless reproduction and at the same time, when required, lack of permanence. Thus a student steps to the transmitter, speaks a few words and then only does the real work begin. Professor Packard reverses the wire, the student hears his own voice and may at will correct...
...appreciation of such accomplishment in the past that Mr. Bingham praised the ambassadorial work of the Instrumental Club at their final meeting last year, and his praise was more than justified by the success that was attended the trip of the past two weeks. Considering the chimaera that have been connected with the name of Harvard by certain popular fancies, the University is extremely fortunate in possessing a group that can, by performance and contact, Lindbergh-like, accomplish so much as delegates of good will...
...iced oysters, champagne, and her uneasy but auspicious star. Having composed this detailed and candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving in her hands like a bright tenuous flag, and who had wrapped life closely about...