Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some way such as this, attempts to raise the level of the American drama will be on the whole no more successful than attempting to raise one's self by one's boot-straps. Experiments on the professional stage without that scorned attribute, business success, can never hope to accomplish a permanent reform. Until the representative audience can appreciate a steady diet of good plays, the "Demi-Virgin" type of production will persevere. Unless this outside education of the audience can be accomplished, it may be necessary to apply St. John Ervine's heroic remedy a moratorium of the drama...
...Scott Fitzgerald as a writer, after the publication of his first novel, it was the conventional thing to predict a great future for him and to hope that in his next work he would produce a really great novel. One of the things he must do to accomplish this, he was frequently advised, was to build his novel on a firmer foundation than the sands of a too clever cynicism. Although they carefully refrained from so expressing themselves, one gathered the impression that these reviewers were advising him to do what in an another day would have been called "writing...
...agree with the "Yale News" that a board of control is necessary or advisable. Such a board would defeat its own purpose by further emphasizing the over organization of football. A conference between representatives of the three colleges could very easily accomplish all that is essential and it could do it quickly. We believe that the following steps are necessary: (1) Abolish Walter Camp's and all other "All-American" mythical teams; cut down all publicity as much as possible; (2) Abolish all "summer" or pre-college term practice; (3) Abolish all advertising, of any intentional sort, of intercollegiate contests...
...trip was planned to accomplish several distinct purposes. In the first place the Deans realize that the large number of men from the West will be seeking employment in western concerns and feel that it is only fair that the School let the future employers know the aims and purposes of its work in order that they will neither expect too little or too much...
...Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self-sufficiency and a desire to be left alone. "What can we accomplish" (referring to the burst of international "generosity" toward China concentrated in the Washington conference) "against a social organization so justly equipoised, which has for its foundation this family idea, this spirit of cooperation, this temperamental solidarity...