Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light by Le Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes...
...adopt a permanent constitution and extend its scope. Its projects will be discussed in detail later in this column, but its general topic for discussion. "The Student's Part in Education" sums up in one phrase the need for its existence and the essential work which it will accomplish...
...upon the death of Marshall Field, John Graves Shedd be came president of the concern. Three years ago he gave the presidency over to James Simpson and turned more to the things he had theretofore been too preoccupied to accomplish. He had long abandoned bicycling for motor-promenading. Golf he always liked. And then his philanthropies. He donated $100,000 towards the Chicago Y. M. C. A. hotel, $50,000 for the Smith College development fund, and $50,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. He: gave considerable time to improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate...
...have a duty to accomplish. I have orders to respect. I have taken upon myself an engagement to give material and moral grandeur to the Italian people. That order, that supreme duty was not given to me by petty lawmaking-assemblies or by political circles, more or less clandestine. It was conferred upon me-and the heritage is sacred by reason of all the Fascists fallen in battle-by all, or almost all, the Italian people...
...Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...