Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consulted concerning the weather prospects for the immediate future, the Blue Hill observatory at Milton predicted that ice would form, in a few days, along the river banks, but that in all probability there would be no solid freeze. A sudden drop in temperature at any time, however, would accomplish this. At any rate, the two remaining floats and the motor boat are to be taken in and the crew work brought to a close by the end of this week...
...effect of the proposals if put in effect would be far-reaching. They would, as the insurgents aver, give the House better "control over itself." But they would also give a minority more power to prevent accomplishments by the majority, even if the majority were a clear majority, as the present Republican majority is not. The present rules restrict the power of the House to "control itself," but they also enable it to sort the wheat from the chaff and accomplish results...
...more .than the mere establishment of a few clinics. The Voluntary Parenthood League (Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Director) is making a concerted effort for the repeal of the sections of the Federal obscenity laws referring to contraceptive measures. In the short session of the last Congress a bill to accomplish this was introduced by Senator Cummins and Representative Kissel. Although many Congressmen, privately polled, approved the bill, it never reached the floor of the Houses, but died in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Knute Nelson, the Chairman of that Committee and a strong opponent of the measure, has since died...
...work of the other committee is to consider the means of balancing Germany's budget and of stabilizing her currency. Unfortunately this fact touches the outskirts of the problem. The German nation, to all intents and purposes, is in a state of bankruptcy. The proposed plan of receivership can accomplish little as long as the Ruhr, the great factory center of the whole nation, is sewed up in the hands of the French, and every bit of capital which the weak German government can tax out of its people must be handed over to France for reparations. The crux...
...rest of the country. Two-score years hence Mr. Wells's dream will have become a reality. An automobile trip in the fashion of his hovel will not have to end in a wreck which magically throws its occupants into another world. A peaceful journey to California will accomplish the same result, and the weather is sure to be better than in Mr. Wells's Utopia...