Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another factor in MacMillan's favor this trip will be the weather. He made his last try for Crocker Land at the beginning of an Arctic winter. With 24 hours of daylight to work in, he expects to accomplish in a few days what it used to take months...
...scheduled at London in 1914 but had to be interrupted on account of the war. In addition there was an unimportant meeting at Naples in 1924. The conference at Harvard, coming after the troubled years which followed the war and the long cessation of such meetings, is expected to accomplish more than any of its predecessors...
...decision of the League of Nations to issue annually a list of the six hundred best books published in all countries during the preceding year is one of great interest. Whether it will accomplish the avowed purpose of "closer intellectual contact" however, must be left for time to tell. Although the plan will stimulate the translation of foreign books and their greater diffusion, its most commendable feature is that of letting each country do its own selecting. If the choices were made by a commission of the League, they would be open to criticism from every country, with the result...
...plan for assigning scholarships put into effect at the Theological School gives every promise of success for the future, said Dean Willard I Sperry in his recent report on the School. It is designed, said Dean Sperry, to make the scholarship grant & recognition of academic excellence. To accomplish this and "to escape from the suspicion of giving Indiscriminate financial aid to students, so often and so justly charged against theological seminaries, this School has greatly reduced its number of announced school airships, and with the cooperation of parishes in the vicinity has instituted a Compensated Church Work plan, by which...
...Mexico will be swallowed up by the United States, and if this country doesn't accomplish it soon economically, she will forcibly." This was the contention of Scott Nearing in his speech last night on "American Imperialism and the Mexican Revolution" at the home of Mr. George E. Roewer, 1737 Cambridge Street. Members of the Liberal Club were guests...