Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that like a human being I might make a mistake. S I said Boston College would be beaten for the purpose--but you understand. Boston College Beaten. You can see how ridiculous that is. And "Cav", I call him "Cav", and I such buddies too. But what did I accomplish, besides making poor "Cav" cry his eyes out? Nothing, or even less. For when I went to the girl, pardon the sentiment, of my dreams, did she fall on my neck and say, "Joe, you're human after all." Did she, I repeat? She did not. She said, "You poor...
...that the modern university president must love his task, for it is a tremendous, often impossible one. Dr. Kirkpatrick's suggestion of the eventual sharing of the presidential responsibility among a small group only lacks the assurance that such a group would work better together, that they would accomplish more, and, at least the President of Harvard University would agree that such an establishment was an approach to the perfect in university administration. Dr. Kirkpatrick can only hope for such cooperation. Could he promise that the faculty, now striding the twin steeds of scholarship and teaching with what grace...
What the half element in American life does not affect, those with a "sense of humor" accomplish. Indeed, if all of the people in this country, instead of intelligence tests, were given humor tests, and the successful sunk in the western ocean, Gertrude Ederle could walk to Honolulu and Italy colonize in the Middle West. That great fault in the genus Americans, an over developed sense of humor plue that blessing of a youthful nation, credulity--those two factors are enough to march a dictator's army up the steps of the White House and make the presidential silence...
...pure woman within a month. That rule you will find a safe guard for worthy living. It is a good rule to endeavor hour by hour and week after week to learn to work hard. It is not well to take four minutes to do what you can accomplish in three. It is not well to take four years to do what you can accomplish in three. It is well to learn to work intensely. You will hear a good dead of advice about letting your soul grow, and breathing in without effort the atmosphere of a learned society...
Significance. It may be postulated that M. Dzerzhinsky's logical and politic scheme of industrial re-organization will encounter all but insuperable resistance at its fulcrums, the tousled heads of Soviet industrial managers. Despatches from Moscow report that the average tourist should allow a week in which to accomplish the formality of obtaining a pass to view the Kremlin. Similar to this are the often "well meaning" delays which are notorious in Soviet industry and were deemed characteristic of the Tsarol regime. Up to the present time no large group of Russians has ever been brought to abandon...