Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burke said. "We want every man to be as much interested in the other events as he is in his own work. Among the men in the same event, we want cooperation, not opposition. In heating Yale, last year's team upset all predictions, and showed what determination could accomplish. What we need to develop is a spirit which will carry us to a victory over Yale on June...
Prof. Albert Einstein: " I resigned as a member of the League of Na- tions Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. In a letter to the Secretariat I said that I thought the League lacked both the strength and the good-will to accomplish its task, and, as a pacifist, it was necessary for me to resign...
...graduate schools have not necessarily committed themselves yet: often the Law School, for example, is merely a makeshift to postpone the final decision. Those who are still undecided, should feel the urgency of choosing with their eyes open. For after several tries, it may be too late to accomplish anything. Or as is often the case, one discovers it increasingly difficult to break away from an unattractive business and start afresh...
Herr Gessler, Minister of Defense, made a speech to the Reichstag in which he said: " Will a nation of sixty millions remain impassive while our brothers in the Ruhr are being strangled by white and black Frenchmen? Our defence army of 100,000 may not accomplish much, but I have no doubt that a well-organized guerrilla war on our own soil would soon end with the enemy's destruction...
...perhaps irrelevant to connect a doubtful metrical translation of Greek tragedies with the University's series of lectures on the four great epic poets given by eminent authorities. But both accomplish the same purpose; a sympathetic appreciation of the spirit of the originals. Few undergraduates read Milton thoroughly, still fewer know Virgil and Dante beyond a few memorized lines repeated parrot-fashion, and relatively a handful have ever dipped into Homer. For the rest, and for this intellectual aristocracy as well, Professor Palmer's lecture this afternoon will open a vista into an unknown world...