Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University rifle team brought its season to a close last Friday evening, when it lost to Yale in the annual telegraphic match, by the score of 497 to 493. Three Yale men had perfect scores of 100, but none of the Crimson marksmen were able to accomplish this...
...Daugherty is quoted as saying that under such a system the government could get on with only two-thirds as many employes as at present and accomplish more work. He finds that under the present system the employes in his department, which he claims to be as good as any other, think much of leaving work before they should than of being at their desks on time in the morning, and attributes this attitude to the civil service. To remedy this dolorous situation he would have a political committee recommend applicants for positions...
...agreement, however, completely changes the situation. According to its terms the Provisional Government and Ulster will cooperate throughout the troubled countries for the suppression of violence, the protection of the Roman Catholics, and the restoration of those who have been drawn from their homes. To accomplish this all special police are to be withdrawn, the republican army is to be disbanded, and in place of these organizations there is to be a regularly organized and uniformed body of police composed equally of Protestants and Roman Catholics. Such an agreement is a distinct victory for the Free Staters and is sure...
...college men are much in evidence. After the Hague Conference of 1899 and 1907, not only was no curtailment of armaments agreed upon but each was followed by two dreadful wars. The failure of the Paris Conference tended to make people still more credulous of what such gatherings could accomplish. Yet the Washington Conference, though it may not produce all that was hoped for by some, will bring to the world greater results and much more far-reaching benefits than were thought possible by many...
...game would be killed. Some of the points on this platform are, as the result of the discussion that has been going on everywhere for the past few months, fairly acceptable. Others may seem radical in the extreme, and yet to make changes less far-reaching would probably accomplish relatively little...