Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develop men who will be able to take charge of the physical education of both high school and college students. Too often this side of the educational field is turned over to directors who have no more than a vague idea of the work they are trying to accomplish...
...these recitations halls each day. Nor does the absence of adequate fire-escapes improve conditions. True, Sever boasts a well hidden system of chain ladders as antiquated as they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
...they should continue to discharge this responsibility uncomplainingly out of love for their alma mater, on the one hand, and of a realization, on the other hand, that they can never fully pay for what their Yale association gives them. In this respect the Yale Alumni Fund Association has accomplished what the endowment policy of Harvard has failed to accomplish...
With a conviction that the great frescos of the world, which are principally in Italy, should be copied before they disintegrate entirely from the effects of time, Lockoff sought and obtained a commission from the Moscow Museum to accomplish this work. The war interrupted his labors and since the Bolshevists have controlled the government he has become greatly in need of financial aid. The Fogg Art Museum lately succeeded in raising the sum necessary to purchase one of his completed frescos, which was shipped to this country in two large sections. Its position in the museum allows a far better...
...such an important question as the admission of foreigners demands time for investigation and discussion; no doubt the present administration would gladly pass on to President-elect Harding the responsibility of determining our future policy in the matter. If Congress, with the immigration problems off its hands, could then accomplish something to relieve the taxpayers of the country, it will, at least, have discredited any assertion that it left undone everything of importance...