Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well handled, however, it should accomplish its purpose. It is not a panacea for all the ills of dullness and drudgery. It is more of a tonic to stimulate thought and the growth of new ideas...
...large number of the public has generally agreed. The plan seems fortunately conceived both in conciliating public opinion and in initiating an important step forward. But if it does no more than rouse the thought processes of the rank and file to the problem of foreign relations, it will accomplish something of no small value...
...definition is the prime objective of these two offers is admitted by Mr. Bok in the current Atlantic Monthly. "Humanity", so writes the Philadelphia publisher, "has never before in the world after a great war shown a greater desire to outgrown war". What these peace awards are expected to accomplish is to direct this striving to a definite end, to make the individual feel he is a potentiality and can be a peacemaker...
Jesse James. The Robin Hood of America ". . . there was no ultimate evil and no ultimate good that the dashing highwayman did not accomplish." Behind the fantastic and villainous hero of the yellow backs, Mr. Dibble finds a not unlovable young man, more sinned against than sinning, indomitable, humorous, fighting a dauntless fight against inconceivable odds, downed in the end only by treachery...
...thing these passionate pictures do accomplish: they confirm a long-standing conviction that Omar will never do for prohibition propaganda nor for an anchorite's amulet...