Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted who are willing to work hard, and who have the necessary physique to accomplish the needed labor most efficiently. It is the cooperation and mutual service that has given the mission its widespread popularity...
...amateur therefore found himself faced with the inability to buy anything suitable to his means. He therefore must needs build it. This is just exactly what he did, and it is one of the striking features of this wonderful new art, that the amateur has been able to accomplish what he has solely by his own efforts...
...action of the Harvard Corporation in officially protesting against the measure is well justified and distinctly appropriate. As the resolution states, the duty would "seriously handicap American libraries, teachers, and men of science, and would accomplish no useful purpose commensurate with the harm done to American scholarship". If other authoritative bodies like the Corporation will take similar action, Congress should be made to see the error of its contemplated step before the sentence is sealed...
...resolution states that in the opinion of the Corporation the proposal would, if put into effect, "seriously handicap American libraries, teachers, and men of science, and would accomplish no useful purpose commensurate with the harm done to American scholarship...
...future war, it would be both to our advantage and to the advantage of those nations now indebted to us for us to operate our own merchant marine, provided we could do it at a lower freight rate than that charged by others. If government marine insurance can accomplish this, without imposing any additional burden on the taxpayers, then there is every reason why it should be adopted, both as a means of adding our sea-borne commerce, and as insurance against Isolation in time of war. JAMES...