Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blind Goddess. Probably every cinema sets out more or less seriously to accomplish its purpose. Authors, directors 'and actors must believe in their product. The fact that this product is so often ridiculous does not alter matters. If a film does not prosper they can say it was far too subtle for the masses; if it does they can say it was Art. All of which is a preliminary to saying that The Blind Goddess does accomplish its purpose. It is a murder melodrama with the guilty one convicted via dictaphone. This sounds like any cinema; the film is however...
Burbank's purpose was to assist Nature to accomplish effects in the vegetable world which, left to chance, might not have come about within time measurable...
...advanced with some very clear and cogent reasoning. It is of course, based on the present condition of unwieldiness, of dispersion, of separation and hopeless unacquaintance on the part of the great body of students. Harvard, in its present condition, cannot be a unit. It is too large to accomplish one of its main purposes. The plan of the committee of the Student Council is to split the upper class students (the Freshman, by that time, being all required to live in college dormitories) into six residential units, each having its common room and dining hall--the whole purpose being...
...preliminary disarmament conference scheduled for Geneva, May 18, will accomplish only negligible results. It would be better for the U. S. to abstain now and offer to mediate between the European nations later, when their economic distress will make it necessary for them to disarm. They do not intend to disarm...
...with the rising tide of applicants for admission. In an era of much confusion and threatened chaos it is indispensable that the amenities no less than the intellectualities be concentrated and conserved, the highest character and traditions of American life. The means adopted by Harvard seem admirably calculated to accomplish this while avoiding the un-Americanism of racial or religious discrimination...